Sorry for the late response. I was up against a deadline and had to switch tactics, but wanted to post a follow up for at least archive purposes.
The project ultimately produced surveys each with content that could be classified into different form types (checkbox, radio, text, etc) and some more complex forms (ex. Some checkbox and radio sections require accompanying text (check "0ther" or "Please describe...")). In any event all questions belong to one variation of a form element. I created one template that contained all of the standard form info (headers/footers, etc) and a loop that examines each question on that template (question info is stored in a database) and displays the proper form element. Everything worked great until validation. The problem seems to lie in the fact that the name of the form element was dynamically named. Example: <input type="text" name="<TMPL_VAR foo>" maxlength....> This works great for the original display of the template, but if errors are detected there doesn't seem to be a way (that I can think of at least) to template the error message. My error messages have the prefix 'err' so to template error message I am left with: <TMPL_IF err_<TMPL_VAR foo>> err_<TMPL_VAR foo> </TMPL_IF> The TMPL_IF line is not legal H::T syntax, so I tried the line without TMPL_IF statements. No matter what I did the error message would not display. I ended up creating one template for each survey section each with the questions for each section explicitly defined (mostly static) in order to get the project out the door. I'd like to revisit the idea of one dynamic template for this application because it would make annual maintenance simple and adding new surveys trivial. After I asked the list I did try creating a bit of HTML::Template code separate from the dynamic template and then tried to include it back in. The closest I came to making it work is error sections were created and physically included in the template so that the TMPL_IF error code posted above would be part of the page source of the HTML page. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Stosberg Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2008 4:32 PM To: cgiapp@lists.erlbaum.net Subject: [cgiapp] Re: ValidateRM and dynamic content > > I am using HTML::Template and CGI::Application::Plugin::ValidateRM. > Page content is generated dynamically which works fine until a > validation error occurs. Unfortunately <err_<TMPL_VAR field_name>> is > not valid H::T. Could you provide a more complete example? I have been using ValidateRM and H::T with complex websites for years and haven't gotten stuck here. I suspect there's another way to accomplish your goal while still using sing these tools. Mark -- http://mark.stosberg.com/ ##### CGI::Application community mailing list ################ ## ## ## To unsubscribe, or change your message delivery options, ## ## visit: http://www.erlbaum.net/mailman/listinfo/cgiapp ## ## ## ## Web archive: http://www.erlbaum.net/pipermail/cgiapp/ ## ## Wiki: http://cgiapp.erlbaum.net/ ## ## ## ################################################################ ##### CGI::Application community mailing list ################ ## ## ## To unsubscribe, or change your message delivery options, ## ## visit: http://www.erlbaum.net/mailman/listinfo/cgiapp ## ## ## ## Web archive: http://www.erlbaum.net/pipermail/cgiapp/ ## ## Wiki: http://cgiapp.erlbaum.net/ ## ## ## ################################################################