This pertains to Publisher 2000 but may be applicable to other versions of
Publish.
I believe the answer is no. Publisher creates the site by making a pub file
and then you "save as a web page". This in turn makes html and image files
to upload to you IP. All the editing is done in the pub file and then you
would create the new html and image files which you then would upload to the
IP replacing the existing html and image files.
Don is correct. The important distinction that seems to get frequently lost
is that FrontPage is a web site design and site management tool whereas
Publisher is neither. It is a DTP tool that can output to html, just as
Microsoft Word can.
