Shortly after I joined UtterAccess I worked with other developers to extend a VBA tool created by another developer to allow posting of syntax-colored code to Access forums. I've also used several of the available "code convertors" on the 'net that allow HTML/XML to be converted for proper display in an HTML page. This page provides a newer extended version of that utility. There are other folks with the same tool; this is just one more site offering this ability. But I needed it for this site's development and it makes sense to make it available to others.

Tiger Ancestry

Fossil evidence shows that catlike carnivores first appeared about 35 million years ago. These were the saber-tooth cats, which had long, daggerlike canine teeth. Saber-tooth cats became extinct less than a million years ago and belonged to a separate ancestral branch than modern cats.

Early modern cats appeared about 25 million years ago and had civet-like features.

Tiger-like cats appeared more than 2 million years ago. Tigers are believed to have originated in eastern Asia where some of the earliest fossils have been found. The eight subspecies developed over time as tigers spread to other regions.

Tiger In Water

Code Convertor

Convert HTML/XML or VBA code to Postable HTML

Displaying HTML or XML code on a web page usually involves converting all the brackets of HTML/XML tags into their respective predefined or character entity codes. (For example, changing an HTML tag like this: <table> into this: &lt;table&gt; )

This utility does it for you. Paste your HTML or XML into the window and click on the Convert XML to HTML button and then click in the textbox to select all the text and do a cut and paste to your HTML page.

You can also copy VBA code into the window below and click the Convert VBA to HTML button to get nicely formatted HTML code that includes syntax specific coloring to match code coloring found in Access' VBA editor.

The code examples on the code page were made "postable" using this utility.