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How do I convert DreamWeaver templates (dwt) into html?

I have a series of DreamWeaver template files (DWT) along with associated images and CSS files that I would like to convert to html and eventually into ASP.NET master pages. Any ideas?

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"If you want to remove template code from the template, run Modify | Templates | Export Without Markup and you will be left with plain HTML and CSS."
Only works providing the original 'Templates' folder is contained in the local site definition folder.

After you inherit a few of these sites, it becomes a pain in the 455 stripping out DWT comment code. I use the following script to automatically strip html comments in all *.xxx files from a site folder. It requires the site folder to be on a webserver and php installed and running. If there are sub-directories in the site, the file has to be moved to those folders and re-run. Usage is explained in the comments:-

<?php
/*
	Batch strip html comments from all text files in the parent folder.
	Target files and parent foldermust have write permissions for the 
	webserver proxy user.
	
	Running in DEBUG mode before an actual run strongly advised.
	
	Comments or suggestions? expert[at]v2media.biz
		
*/
ini_set('display_errors',1);
$ds = DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;
$path = dirname(__FILE__).$ds;
$pattern = "/<!-- .* -->/";
?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Strip all comments</title>
</head><body>
<?php
//USER TO CHANGE VARS
//$format: extension of file format to strip comments from
//e.g. 'php', 'htm', 'html'
$format = 'php';
 
//$DEBUG: if set to true, the script will output which files
//will be modified and how many comments in the file exist
$DEBUG = true;
//END USER VARS
 
@define('FILE_APPEND', 1);
if ( !function_exists('file_put_contents') ) {
	function file_put_contents($filename, $data, $flag = false) {
		$mode = (FILE_APPEND) ? 'a' : 'w';
		$file = @fopen($filename, $mode);
		if ($file === false) {
			return false;
		} else {
			if (is_array($data)) $data = implode($data);
			$bytes_written = @fwrite($file, $data);
			@fclose($file);
			return $bytes_written;
		}
	}
}
 
foreach (glob("$path*.php") as $filename) {
	
	$file = file_get_contents($filename);
	$search = preg_match_all( $pattern,$file,$matches);
	$file = preg_replace($pattern,'',$file);
	
	if(!$DEBUG){
		
		$new_file = file_put_contents($filename,$file);
		if($new_file) echo "Written($new_file) to: $filename<br />\n";
		else echo "failed to modify $cilename<br />\n";
	
	} else {	
 
		echo "Comments found in in ->$filename <br />\n";
		echo "<pre>";
		$arr = print_r($matches,true);
		echo htmlentities($arr);
		echo "</pre><br />\n";
		
	}
//end loop
}
?>
</body>
</html>

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