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Part VI
Enhancing Productivity and Web Site Management
Removing template markup from an entire page
Template-derived documents don’t need to stay template-derived documents forever. All you need
do is to detach the document from its template, and all template markup in the page is removed. To
detach a document from the template choose Modify ➪ Templates ➪ Detach from Template.
If, for any reason, you need to remove all the markup from a template itself, the fastest
way is to create a document from that template and then issue the Detach from Template
command.
Exporting a site without template markup
Not all sites are template-based. Dreamweaver gives you the power to strip all the template markup
from template-based documents in an entire site. This command is particularly useful when migrat-
ing previously template-based documents to a site that does not use templates. Just to hedge your
bets, Dreamweaver optionally exports the data from your template-based documents into XML files
so that, if necessary, the data can be applied to a new template.
The Export without Markup command handles more than just the templates, however. An entire
copy of your site is copied to a new folder, sans template markup. Even the Template folder itself,
with all the site’s templates intact, is copied. Best of all, this is not necessarily a one-time feature. If
repeated, you have the option to ex ...