Craig Barratt wrote:
>
> > I am using template toolkit to generate dynamic content. I have
> > encoutered the following error:
> >
> > unexpected token ('<A)
> > -- is_allowed_todo('<A HREF="/job?page=CrewEditPage&job=[% job
> >
> > I need a work around to this problem. Here is what I am doing:
> >
> > [% is_allowed_todo('<A HREF="/job?page=CrewEditPage&job=[% job
> > %]&code=[% ref.first %]"><font face="sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica"
> > size="2">[% ref.1 %]</FONT></A>','MOD','_default') %]
> >
> > I can't figure out where the missing token is. I am thinking that since
> > I am using '' it should be safe to include [% %] any where. Right?
>
> No. The closing "%]" is detected by a simple regex before the parser
> sees it, so it will be seen inside any single or double quotes. The
> parser sees just:
>
> [% is_allowed_todo('<A HREF="/job?page=CrewEditPage&job=[% job %]
>
> and it is complaining about the unclosed quote.
>
> I assume you want to preserve the TT directives inside the string
> and process them later as part of a two-step process? You have
Actually, I want it to be interpreted and the appropriate tage e.g.: [%
job %]
be replaced with "hp" or "sum" or whatever the job might be.
> several choices: change the START_TAG/END_TAG on the first or
> second pass, use some other special tags inside the first argument
> to is_allowed_todo() and have it replace them, or use a variable
> for the end tag and interpolate it in the string using $endTag (you
> will have to use double quotes instead of single), eg:
>
> endTag = "%\]";
> is_allowed_todo("<A HREF='/job?page=CrewEditPage&job=[% job $endTag ....
>
hmmm. I will try this. It looks promising :)
> Craig
>
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