You can save (X)HTML documents either in (X)HTML or as plain text. Other documents (SVG, MathML, XML or CSS) are saved according to their original format. You can save both remote and local documents with three different commands, Save, Save as, and Save all.
In addition, you can change a number of publishing options using the Publishing Preferences dialog. Open this dialog by choosing Preferences / Publishing from the Edit menu (or amaya / Preferences on Mac OS X).
Amaya does not provide any global view of a set of pages installed on a server. However, you can save the server files in the same way you save local files, using Save and Save as commands.
During these operations, Amaya is also able to save the resources you have associated with the document (images, style sheets, scripts).
The Save command saves the current document to its original location, be it local or remote. You can access the Save command by choosing Save from the File menu (Ctrl-s) or clicking the Save button .
You can fetch a web document by specifying only a server directory name. The default file name is omitted (index.html or Overview.html). This may be useful when browsing, but the file name is required for publishing.
Usually Amaya uses the HTTP Content-Location
provided by the
server when the document is loaded. If the file name is not provided in the
HTTP header, Amaya asks you to provide one when saving.
Newly added local resources are saved in the same directory automatically. The list of saved files is proposed to the user, so he/she can remove some files in the list.
If you want to save new added resources into another directory, you have to use the Save as command.
You can use Amaya to update your web site, even if the server doesn't support HTTP Put or WebDAV methods. When the editing of a remote document is done, you use the usual Save command.
When the command fails, Amaya proposes to keep a local copy of the edited document with the same server hierarchy. If several documents of the same site are edited, they are saved with the same relative positions.
Once the Amaya edit is done, you can update your web site by transferring local copies, as they are, to the server with your usual method (ftp or upload).
The Save all command allows you to save all documents open in Amaya that have been modified and not saved yet. It works exactly like the Save command, but for all the modified documents, not only the current one.
This command may be called from the File menu or by clicking the button on the button bar.
Choosing Save As (Ctrl-Shift-s) from the File menu opens the Save As dialog, which allows you to save the current document with a different format and to a different location.
You can:
The dialog box contains two tabs and two buttons. The first tab is about the document itself. The second tab is about its associated resources (images, styles sheets, scripts, etc.).
The Document tab contains:
/pub/html/welcome.html
) or a remote URI (for example,
http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Welcome.html
).
Note: Usea
complete path for the URI. You should also make sure that you have the
rights to do a PUT
method if it is a remote location. Refer to
the page on configuring
your server to accept the PUT method or ask your Web administrator.
Entry Text removes the HTML mark-up and produces a plain text document.
If you save the document locally to publish it by ftp just because your provider or your Webmaster does not allow you to use the HTTP Put method, you must disable this option to not alterate links computed when the document was on the http server.
When images and objects are copied, Amaya updates automatically all src and data attributes to point new locations. New locations are relative URIs.
When these resources are copied, Amaya updates automatically all
links and processing instructions to point to these new resource
locations. New locations are relative URIs.
Very often the charset of Web documents is controlled by
the server. It depends either on the document suffix (html, xml, xhtml,
svg, mml), or on instructions given in the .htaccess
file.
The Images, Styles and Scripts tab contains:
Two buttons complete this dialog:
When saving to a remote location, check that the http_proxy is not set, or that the proxy server and the target server are configured to work with the HTTP Put method.
Three standard encodings are considered:
us-ascii
is a 7-bit code that represents 96 printable
characters (positions 32 through 127 decimal).iso-8859-1
is a 8-bit code that represents the same
characters as us-ascii
, at the same positions, plus 95
additional printable characters, commonly used in various European
languages.utf-8
is a variable length encoding scheme for the Universal
Character Set - UCS (ISO10646 aka Unicode). UCS represents thousands of
characters. Note that the 96 first characters have the same positions in
UCS as in us-ascii
(and then as in
iso-8859-1
).If an XML or HTML document contains a character that is not available in the character set (charset) available with the encoding, a special representation is required. XML offers two such representations of characters:
α
(hexadecimal) or
α
(decimal)α
Character references may be used in any XML or HTML document, but entity references are allowed only if the document itself contains a means to resolve the name.
Entity name resolution is provided by the Document type definition which
refers to the DTD where names and their associated contents are defined.
Practically, this means that you can use entity references only if the
<!DOCTYPE ...>
is present and refers to a DTD that defines
the names you use.
By default, Amaya preserves the initial encoding of the document, that is the encoding that was associated with the document at loading time. You can check this encoding with command Views/Document info (Charset field). The Save and Save all commands save the document with that encoding, while the Save As command allows you to choose another encoding (Charset field).
When saving a document (Save, Save all, or
Save As commands), all characters that are available in the
charset of the encoding are just written using the encoding. Only the other
characters are written using character or entity references. The choice between
these two options is made according to the doctype
. If there is a
doctype
that refers to a DTD that defines a name for the
character, an entity reference is used (i.e. a name), otherwise Amaya generates
a character reference in hexadecimal.
Note: command Tools/Change doctype allows you
to associate, to change or to remove the doctype
of a document at
any time. This allows you to make Amaya generate either character references or
entity references.
You can save your document as plain text using the Save as command from the File menu. HTML mark-up is replaced by spaces, new lines, and so on. A list of all URIs used in the document is appended to the file.
To save your document as text: