replace question

Hi, all. I'm trying to replace <object ...><embed... /></objectwith
<imgtag and vice-verse. It's like implementation of media plugin of
Tiny MCE editor. I tried to watch their code, but it's too complicated
and has a lot of unnecessary code. And the main reason is i'm weak in
javascript rewriting. :)
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I need just simple rewrite for e.g. this
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<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="URL"></
param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="URL"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425"
height="355"></embed></object>
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<img width="425" height="355" title="src:'URL'">.
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param tags can be omitted.
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Could anybody help me? Thanks in advance.

I tried to do it myself, but all I did is to replaced
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<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="URL"></
param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="URL"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425"
height="355"></embed></object>
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with
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<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="URL"></
param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><img src="URL"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425"
height="355"></embed></object>

Rauan Maemirov wrote:>>>>
1. My tests indicate that a Flash movie is not played by an `img' element,
* *so replacing the object-embed element combination would be futile, even
* *though the `embed' element is proprietary (and therefore not Valid)..
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2. Using client-side scripting to correct markup is the wrong approach
* *as it does not need to be available.
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3. If necessary, you should rewrite the editor instead.
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4. FWIW, in Eclipse I would have used the following parameters:
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Search for:
(?s)<object\s+.*?<embed\s+.*?(src=".+?")[^>]*?\s+(width=.+?>)</embed></object>
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Replace with:
<img $1 $2 alt="">
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(Don't forget the `alt' attribute, give it a descriptive value if
possible/applicable!)
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BTW, QuickREx again came in handy in finding that out:
<http://www.bastian-bergerhoff.com/eclipse/features/web/QuickREx/toc.html>
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5. With the exception of `(?s)', which can be worked around with
* *`(?:.|[\r\n])' instead of `.', this should also work with
* *String.prototype.replace() in JavaScript 1.5+ (Mozilla/5.0),
* *JScript 5.5+ (IE 5.5+), ECMAScript Ed. 3+.
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6. Replacing content this way might require using `innerHTML', a
* *proprietary property that should be avoided in favor of DOM 2 scripting.
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HTH
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PointedEars
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Rauan Maemirov wrote:>>>>
1. My tests indicate that a Flash movie is not played by an `img' element,
* *so replacing the object-embed element combination would be futile, even
* *though the `embed' element is proprietary (and therefore not Valid)..
>
2. Using client-side scripting to correct markup is the wrong approach
* *as it does not need to be available.
>
3. If necessary, you should rewrite the editor instead.
>
4. FWIW, in Eclipse I would have used the following parameters:
>
Search for:
(?s)<object\s+.*?<embed\s+.*?(src=".+?")[^>]*?\s+(width=.+?>)</embed></object>
>
Replace with:
<img $1 $2 alt="">
>
(Don't forget the `alt' attribute, give it a descriptive value if
possible/applicable!)
>
BTW, QuickREx again came in handy in finding that out:
<http://www.bastian-bergerhoff.com/eclipse/features/web/QuickREx/toc.html>
>
5. With the exception of `(?s)', which can be worked around with
* *`(?:.|[\r\n])' instead of `.', this should also work with
* *String.prototype.replace() in JavaScript 1.5+ (Mozilla/5.0),
* *JScript 5.5+ (IE 5.5+), ECMAScript Ed. 3+.
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6. Replacing content this way might require using `innerHTML', a
* *proprietary property that should be avoided in favor of DOM 2 scripting.
>
HTH
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PointedEars
--
Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on
a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web,
when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another
computer, another word processor, or another network. -- Tim Berners-Lee

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:>
I tried your regex:
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var flash = '<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie"
value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yVjzd320gew&hl=en"></param><param
name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://
www.youtube.com/v/yVjzd320gew&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-
flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></
object>';
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flash = flash.replace('(?s)<object\s+.*?<embed\s+.*?(src=" .+?")[^>]*?\s
+(width=.+?>)</embed></object>', '<img $1 $2 alt=""');
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It returns the same object...

[trimmed attribution novel]
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Rauan Maemirov wrote:>>>>>>>>>>
It returns a primitive string value, not an object. *It returns the same
string it is being applied to because you have not passed a RegExp object
but a string as argument, and you have not read my posting thoroughly
enough. *If you had quoted properly, you would have been forced to re-read
before replying and had probably not made this silly mistake.
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PointedEars
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* * evangelism: XHTML 1.0 Strict
* * madness: * *XHTML 1.1 as application/xhtml+xml
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * -- Bjoern Hoehrmann