Thank you Bill, I tried your suggestion, but that doesn't help.
Placing @@request$fixEnc by itself in the sample returns the value META just fine. The ENCODING attribute is just not accepting it. Am I crazy, or shouldn't any Metatag attribute accept a dynamic value? > -----Original Message----- > From: William M Conlon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 10:56 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Am I totally brain dead? > > How about quoting attributes? > > <@IF EXPR="<@VERSION> beginswith 5.5"> > <@ASSIGN SCOPE="request" NAME="fixEnc" VALUE="META"> <@ELSE> > <@ASSIGN SCOPE="request" NAME="fixEnc" VALUE="METAHTML"> </@IF> > > On Jan 13, 2006, at 9:48 AM, Scott Cadillac wrote: > > > Thank you Bill, > > > > But that part works okay. It's the dynamic setting of the ENCODING > > attribute that is the problem. > > > > The ENCODING attribute does not want to accept a dynamic variable > > value, and in the case of my example the <@VERSION> metatag is not > > evaluating > > - it's > > returning the raw text of <@VERSION>, not executing the metatags. > > > > The ENCODING is defaulting to NONE on 5.5, not the META value I'm > > trying to set. > > > > By the way, I've already tried searching the List archive > on this, but > > no luck. > > > > Thanks. > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: William M Conlon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 10:43 AM > >> To: [email protected] > >> Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Am I totally brain dead? > >> > >> Try quoting '5.5' I'm betting 5.5 is getting cast as a number. > >> On Jan 13, 2006, at 9:34 AM, Scott Cadillac wrote: > >> > >>> Hi All, > >>> > >>> I know I said I wouldn't do it again, but I couldn't help > >> myself - it > >>> felt sooo gooood! > >>> > >>> I'm writing Witango code again, but I'll leave you > guessing who I'm > >>> working for :-) > >>> > >>> Why doesn't the following work? Witango 5.0 or 5.5 on Windows. > >>> > >>> <@IF EXPR="<@VERSION> beginswith 5.5"> <@ASSIGN request$fixEnc > >>> VALUE=META> <@ELSE> <@ASSIGN request$fixEnc > VALUE=METAHTML> </@IF> > >>> > >>> <@ASSIGN request$dynamicStuff VALUE="<@LITERAL > VALUE='<@VERSION>'>"> > >>> > >>> <@VAR request$dynamicStuff ENCODING=@@request$fixEnc> > >>> > >>> Has it just been so long since writing Witango code for > me, that I > >>> can't remember some basic principle here? > >>> > >>> Shouldn't I be able to dynamically set any attribute value for a > >>> Metatag? > >>> > >>> Thank you for any feedback. > >>> > >>>> From ~ Scott Cadillac, > >>> Software Programmer For Hire > >>> > >>> Email ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> Phone ~ 403-254-5002 > >>> Web ~ http://www.xmlx.ca > >>> > >>> Mail ~ XML-Extranet > >>> P.O. Box 69006 > >>> RPO Bridlewood SW > >>> Calgary, Alberta > >>> Canada T2Y 4T9 > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > _____________________________________________________________________ > >> _ > >>> __ > >>> TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to > http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > >> > >> Bill > >> > >> William M. Conlon, P.E., Ph.D. > >> To the Point > >> 345 California Avenue Suite 2 > >> Palo Alto, CA 94306 > >> vox: 650.327.2175 (direct) > >> fax: 650.329.8335 > >> mobile: 650.906.9929 > >> e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> web: http://www.tothept.com > >> > >> ______________________________________________________________ > >> __________ > >> TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > >> > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > __ > > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > > Bill > > William M. Conlon, P.E., Ph.D. > To the Point > 345 California Avenue Suite 2 > Palo Alto, CA 94306 > vox: 650.327.2175 (direct) > fax: 650.329.8335 > mobile: 650.906.9929 > e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > web: http://www.tothept.com > > ______________________________________________________________ > __________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
