> From: Scott Raney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:00:08 -0600 (MDT)
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: htmlText - problem and feature request...
>
> 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?
>
No - sorry this is a typo. You get a different result with the "<LINK..."
tag in the header. I've lost the exact result, but you get something like
the following:
<P><GROUP>Date Index [Earlier messages</GROUP>] <B>metacard</B>
The basic point being that a group is "lost", which mucks up the numbering,
and hence the possibility of correlating groups with links. By the way does
anything other than an "<A href..." link the displayed text to be grouped?
>> 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?
>> 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.
Cool, can't wait. I think it would be very useful to retain all tags. I have
found that using XML style tags as mark-up is very powerful, as you can
display the results so quickly by setting the htmlText of a field. At the
moment I have to store the full html as a custom property effectively
duplicating the data.
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