I've had the same problem. It just doesn't seem to work to have a variable hold
the encoding value. I'm guessing that it is a bug.
Stefan
At 01:05 PM 1/13/2006, you wrote:
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,
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