Comments on: Absolute positioning in HTML e-mails for Outlook 2007 http://blog.pepa.info/php-html-css/html-e-mail/absolute-positioning-outlook-2007/ Petr 'PePa' Pavel Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:46:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: ciccio http://blog.pepa.info/php-html-css/html-e-mail/absolute-positioning-outlook-2007/#comment-2261 ciccio Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:23:54 +0000 http://blog.pepa.info/?p=21#comment-2261 Sorry for being unpolite. And I had really appreciated the way you answered to my comment. But I arrived here searching for “<div v:shape=” because I have to deal with a customer which has about 20000 xml docs containg html parts. The docs are contained in a database of a product that has to be migrated. I wrote a software that, among the others, extract the xml from the db blobs, transform some xml nodes and extract some html parts to build a html document, as a part of the migration project. While I'm writing it, I was doing some tests against a number of documents as xml parsing and transformation is time and resource consuming, and all went ok. Now that the sw is 99.9% done, I've tested it against a broader set of documents and it's failing because of that v:shape attribute. Now I have to choose among: - add the xmlns to all the documents, whether they have the attr or not (little effort, not elegant) - navigate all the nodes and check all the attributes, sanitizing them or adding the xmlns if necessary (middle effort, time and resource consuming) - implement my own transformer (high effort) - ? AFAIK, all the solutions require time and you know time==money/life. That's way I'm unhappy. Sorry for being unpolite.
And I had really appreciated the way you answered to my comment.
But I arrived here searching for “<div v:shape=” because I have to deal with a customer which has about 20000 xml docs containg html parts.
The docs are contained in a database of a product that has to be migrated.
I wrote a software that, among the others, extract the xml from the db blobs, transform some xml nodes and extract some html parts to build a html document, as a part of the migration project.
While I’m writing it, I was doing some tests against a number of documents as xml parsing and transformation is time and resource consuming, and all went ok.
Now that the sw is 99.9% done, I’ve tested it against a broader set of documents and it’s failing because of that v:shape attribute.
Now I have to choose among:
- add the xmlns to all the documents, whether they have the attr or not (little effort, not elegant)
- navigate all the nodes and check all the attributes, sanitizing them or adding the xmlns if necessary (middle effort, time and resource consuming)
- implement my own transformer (high effort)
- ?
AFAIK, all the solutions require time and you know time==money/life.
That’s way I’m unhappy.

]]> By: Petr 'PePa' Pavel http://blog.pepa.info/php-html-css/html-e-mail/absolute-positioning-outlook-2007/#comment-2246 Petr 'PePa' Pavel Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:02:04 +0000 http://blog.pepa.info/?p=21#comment-2246 I despise this MS-only stuff as much as you do but by closing my eyes I won't make it go away. So if a client specifically requests he wants his e-mail thing to show well in Outlook 2007 I just take a deep breath and do it. That's just life I guess. I despise this MS-only stuff as much as you do but by closing my eyes I won’t make it go away. So if a client specifically requests he wants his e-mail thing to show well in Outlook 2007 I just take a deep breath and do it. That’s just life I guess.

]]> By: ciccio http://blog.pepa.info/php-html-css/html-e-mail/absolute-positioning-outlook-2007/#comment-2245 ciccio Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:14:07 +0000 http://blog.pepa.info/?p=21#comment-2245 Interesting... "<div v:shape="... Please, stop publishing that crap on the web. Interesting…
“<div v:shape=”…

Please, stop publishing that crap on the web.

]]> By: Adrenalin http://blog.pepa.info/php-html-css/html-e-mail/absolute-positioning-outlook-2007/#comment-1668 Adrenalin Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:19:53 +0000 http://blog.pepa.info/?p=21#comment-1668 Oh my inexistant God! You really saved my day. You know, after banging your head against Outlook 2007 for several hours, trying to Google my way to find out about the lack of backgrounds and then finally ending up in here, tired and frustrated, ready to resign... ;) I thank you from the bottom of my heart for these advices. Oh my inexistant God! You really saved my day.

You know, after banging your head against Outlook 2007 for several hours, trying to Google my way to find out about the lack of backgrounds and then finally ending up in here, tired and frustrated, ready to resign… ;)

I thank you from the bottom of my heart for these advices.

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