Syntax definition Files

[Jane]

Hi,
I am using a content management system called Webgenz
I am currently trying to define a syntax file for the code.

What I need to happen is to highlight all areas where a [@ ... ] occurs.
The files also contain html code so I have based the syntax file on the standard HTML one.

At the moment I have used the alternate comment definition
eg
CommentStartAlt = [@
CommentEndAlt = ]

This works fine except where the macro is held with in a string.
eg
meta name="keywords" desc="[@keywords]"
does not highlight.
but
meta name="keywords" desc=[@keywords]
does

Does anyone have any bright ideas

Thanks in advance Jane.

[smhaus_net]

Nothing can pick up something inside a String because the content inside a String in not part of the syntax, it is a value for that String.

If highlighting that is more important than colors for String quotes, consider just not highlighting the String. For most of HTML, the quotes are optional anyway.

[chris]

Have you tried using the single quote instead of the double quote ? Most of the time plain HTML does not really care if attribute values use single ' or double " quotes - just define those two differently and you will have what you want.

Regards,
CM