I wrote up this very issue just yesterday for the Summer Reboot. It is the final section on this page here:
http://wiki.radiantcms.org/Using_the_built-in_tags The answer is that Radius cannot parse "tags-within-tags". Not even when the > outer tag is a standard HTML tag, and not a Radius tag. Actually, I think you can do the following (contrived example, I know!): <a href="<r:url/>"><r:title/></a> As Tony pointed out, this is invalid XML. But Radiant would parse the <r:url/> tag, replacing it with a string, so that in the output page, the illegal portion of XML would be gone. Please do correct me if I am wrong. I haven't had time to test this particular example since I wrote the article, but I am fairly sure that I have used Radius tags within the attributes of HTML tags without a problem. Drew > I usually end up writing custom tags in cases like this, but perhaps > someone has a more efficient solution? > > Cheers, > Casper > > > > On 29/08/2008, at 10:44, Tony Spataro wrote: > > Hello all, >> >> Sorry if this is a newbie-ish question; I've checked the FAQ and skimmed >> the >> source a bit, and haven't found any obvious solution. >> >> I'm in a position where I want to evaluate a Radius tag and insert the >> resulting text into the value of an HTML attribute. My use case involves >> the >> page_attachments extension, and I'm trying to do something like this: >> >> <r:attachment:link title="<r:attachment:author />"> Click here >> </r:attachment:link> >> >> Which is to say, I want the title of the link to be the attachment >> author's >> name. However, this is not well-formed XML, and anyhow the Radius parser >> doesn't seem to parse into attribute values. >> >> Is there a canonical way to do what I want? I'm aware that I could simply >> tweak page_attachments_tags to do things my way, but that feels like >> cheating to me... >> >> Cheers, >> -Tony >> _______________________________________________ >> Radiant mailing list >> Post: Radiant@radiantcms.org >> Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ >> Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant >> > > _______________________________________________ > Radiant mailing list > Post: Radiant@radiantcms.org > Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ > Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant > _______________________________________________ Radiant mailing list Post: Radiant@radiantcms.org Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant
