Hi Victor, Do you have DP Alphanumeric fields which not only contain HTML formatting, but also include DP formatting, eg lines feeds, bold underline etc?
If it is just HTML code in the field, and you are outputting the field for its HTML to be rendered in say a browser, then there is no need to use the ;;W. If you output without the ;;W then the field would be output as is. Do you have a sample of the data value that is contained in the field, and how you would like it outputted? Regards Brian -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Victor Warner Sent: Wednesday, 15 October 2008 7:25 PM To: Dataperfect Users Discussion Group Subject: Re: [Dataperf] ;;W query Brian, Thank you for the very informative and detailed reply. For the field concerned there is a range of characters/formatting, which I would like converted using ;;w (bold/italic, quotes, ampersands). I wish to create very simple (and only) (x)html pages (certainly not xml pages). The bottom line appears that if I wish to use ;;w on field then I cannot specify or retain any "convertable" characters as is. Thank you again for the explanation. Victor Brian Hancock wrote: > Hi Victor, > > That is by design. The five special XML/HTML characters that DP2.6Y converts > are < > " ' &. These bare characters must not be used inside an attribute > (eg the 'href' attribute of the anchor '<a>' element) or as other unparsed > data in well formed XML or XHTML. > > If you have a complete HTML or XML element in a field then you should not > need to use the ;;W indicator to populate a page. > > It becomes somewhat complex when you are using HTML fragments as data inside > an XML document when the fragment may not be well formed XML, because using > it without the ;;W would cause the XML document to no longer be well formed > as would create errors in the XML application (Browser etc) In this case > depending on the circumstance you can include the raw data inside a CDATA > section such as > > <MYHTML> > <![CDATA[<a href="blah">xxx<a/>]]> > </MYHTML> > > In this case leaving off the ;;W would generally give you what is required > even if the HTML fragement is not well formed XML. > > Ideally you would try to make sure that HTML fragments are XHTML. > > If you are using XSLT the special characters in a CDATA section will likely > still convert to things like " so on some XSLT processors you can > control this with disable-output-escaping attrbitue in the xsl instruction > eg <xsl:value-of select="." disable-output-escaping="yes" />. However this > does not work with Firefox browsers. So in this case it is better to make > sure that the data is well formed XHTML, or use a different server-side XSLT > processor. > > DP2.6Y improves the XHTML compliance by ensuring that alphanumeric fields > when used with the ;;W indicator output well formed XHTML. In DP2.6X, bolded > and underlined DP data is converted to uppercase <B> or <U> tags and in 2.6Y > they are lowercase <b>, <i>, <u> in 2.6X line breaks are output as <BR> but > in 2.6Y they become <br /> where you have overlapped bolded and underlined > DP text, the ;;W does not correct the nesting, so it can still break XML. > > The ;;W indicator also does not work in the apply.format[] function. It > would be very nice if it did, as you could get much better control. I asked > Lew about it and he said it was quite difficult, so it was left for a future > day. > > Regards > Brian > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Victor Warner > Sent: Wednesday, 15 October 2008 1:07 AM > To: 'Dataperfect Users Discussion Group' > Subject: [Dataperf] ;;W query > > I am beginning to understand (somewhat) how the ;;W print mode indicator > works, however there is one thing I would like some clarification: > > If within a Alphanumeric field I would like to create a <a href=" > ">xxx</a> link, and I put this link code in the '"' gets turned to > '"' and the '<' and '>' also get changed. > > Is it possible to specify these type of characters so that they do not > get converted for html use but retain the benefit of using ;;W for all > the other things which I wish to be converted? > > Victor Warner. > _______________________________________________ > Dataperf mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf > > _______________________________________________ > Dataperf mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf > > _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf
