Can u suggest how queries are parsed to the database and where does this
happen ?

thanks



Daniel B. Giffin wrote:
> 
> i happen to have lenses that include SELECT and OPTION elements (one
> of my views gives an editable form that can be submitted to a
> server-side database).  but it appears that my browser (Firefox
> 2.0.0.8) is stripping out all non-OPTION elements  from inside the
> SELECT, before exhibit can inspect the dom.  this means that my DIVs
> with special exhibit attributes don't get interpreted by the template
> instantiator.
> 
> my solution, just in case anybody is interested, was to create a new
> exhibit attribute called "ex:convert-tag" whose value is used to
> replace the tag on the element being generated.  so instead of saying
> <select>, i say <div ex:convert-tag="select">.
> 
> the patch (two lines of code) is below.
> 
> a remaining problem is that the select widget gets rendered "out of
> sync": dom inspection shows that the correct OPTION element has a
> "selected" attribute, but the control is actually selecting the first
> option (which seems to be the default).  i guess i'll have to write
> some javascript to fix it up after generation (probably using the
> recently-added post-generation hook).
> 
> anyway, thanks for all this software that is written so well that it
> can actually be read!  (i was even able to get exhibit to load data
> remotely with a sparql query that's embedded in the page, just using
> the exposed api and a little helper code.)
> 
> daniel
> 
> -----
> 
> the diff below is against this version:
> [
> URL:
> http://simile.mit.edu/repository/exhibit/branches/2.0/src/webapp/api/scripts/ui/lens.js
> Revision: 8555
> ]
> 
> [
> --- old-exhibit/src/webapp/api/scripts/ui/lens.js 2007-11-05
> 17:50:10.000000000 -0800
> +++ new-exhibit/src/webapp/api/scripts/ui/lens.js 2007-11-05
> 17:50:10.000000000 -0800
> @@ -293,6 +293,8 @@
>                  templateNode.control = value;
>              } else if (name == "content") {
>                  templateNode.content =
> Exhibit.ExpressionParser.parse(value);
> +            } else if (name == "convert-tag") {
> +                templateNode.tag = value;
>              } else if (name == "if-exists") {
>                  templateNode.condition = {
>                      test:       "if-exists",
> ]
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