On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, David Bovill wrote:
> The following piece of HTML...
>
> <HTML>
> <HEAD>
> <TITLE>metacard</TITLE>
> <LINK REL="StyleSheet" HREF="../style.css">
> </HEAD>
> <BODY>
> <HR>
> <ul><A HREF="maillist.html">Date Index</A>
> [<A HREF="thrd2.html">Earlier messages</A>]
>
> <strong>metacard</strong>
> </BODY>
>
> Is stripped to...
>
>
> <P><GROUP>Date Index</GROUP> [<GROUP>Earlier messages</GROUP>]
> <B>metacard</B>
>
>
> By Metacard when you set the htmlText of a field and then try to get the
> htmlText later.
>
> Now the offending line is:
>
> <LINK REL="StyleSheet" HREF="../style.css">
>
> Removing it you get:
>
> <P><GROUP>Date Index</GROUP> [<GROUP>Earlier messages</GROUP>]
> <B>metacard</B>
Umm, this looks the same as without it, right?
> Presumably because it is picking it up as an "<A HREF " opening tag. I need
> to fix this as I want to be able to translate between the groups that the
> user clicks on in a field and the "A HREF" links in the original html. To do
> this I aim to build an array where the order of the groups in the htmltext
> corresponds to the order of the links in the original html.
>
> Are there any other problems I should anticipate? I can fix this by
> stripping the header of "<Link ...> tag... what do you recommend?
The <LINK> tags really serve no purpose, even in browsers. They're
more for content-management tools to use.
> Feature request
> The feature request is to retain all the html in the htmlText property only
> displaying whatever is possible as now, and to have a simple way of
> translating between displayed characters and those characters in the
> original html = htmlText.
>
> This could either be a function such as:
>
> "function htmlChunk startChar, endchar, htmlText"
>
> This may be problematic for complex/unfocussed chunks, so maybe just...
>
> An htmlClickChunk property which would return the same as the clickChunk but
> something appropriate to the htmlText. Similar properties would eventually
> needed for other Metacard expression (hence the idea of a single function
> above).
It should be possible to do this with the existing HTML text features
as soon as we get hidden tags implemented. I'm not sure yet whether
even totally useless stuff (like <LINK> tags) will be retained, but
certainly stuff like HREF tags will be.
Regards,
Scott
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