Writing HTML-templates - Here is the problem!

(436.3 7-23-1997)) id 85256572.00584E3D ; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 11:04:31 -0500

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One possible solution to this problem (in FrontPage 98) is to take

advantage of the special tags <% and %>. FrontPage 98 will not reformat

any text between these tags.

Example:

<%

<?forte execute mdm(root="AREA_CNTRY" ) resultset="MDMResults">

<form method="POST" action="--WEBBOT-SELF--">

<select name="BrandDl" size="1">

<?forte iterate x mdmresults.mdmlist>

<option>$$x.Description</option>

<?/forte iterate x></p>

</select>

</form>

%>

Next you must remove (global replace) them before you turn around the

HTTPresponse to the user. This can be done by over-riding the

HandleTemplate method on your HTMLScanner.

Example:

response : HTTPresponse = new;

// process the template

response = super.HandleTemplate(request);

// get rid of the FrontPage Special Chars

ReplaceString(InputString=response.EntityBody, StringToReplace='<%',

ReplaceBy='');

ReplaceString(InputString=response.EntityBody, StringToReplace='%>',

ReplaceBy='');

return response;

Norm DeGennaro

vsi@lindhard.com on 12/19/97 04:53:20 AM

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Subject: Writing HTML-templates - Here is the problem!

Thanks for the quick replies to my question. Unfortunately, however,

they didn't solve my problem.

I should have been more concrete; below follows the code fragment which

gives the problem:

I want to populate a droplist dynamically. This, in itself, is no

problem. The code below works fine, is correctly interpreted by FORTE,

and does the job - I just can't write the code in Frontpage 98.

Every time I save it or switch to WYSIWYG View, the

<option>$$BrandRow.Brand</option> is deleted and the </select> is moved

right behind the <select name="BrandDl" size="1">.

<?forte execute MyWebAppHandler.getBrands resultset="BrandListRS">

<form method="POST" action="--WEBBOT-SELF--">

<select name="BrandDl" size="1">

<?forte iterate BrandRow BrandListRS.BrandList>

<option>$$BrandRow.Brand</option>

<?/forte iterate BrandRow></p>

</select>

I understand from some of your replies (Dr. Daniel Marcus), that using

ITERATE and OPTION together in Frontpage can cause problems. Has anyone

successfully solved this problem?

I think it is crucial, that you can indeed write and maintain a template

in a WYSIWYG-editor. I don't like the idea of having to maintain a

template in a simple text editor, simply because you happen to have

added "incompatible" FORTE-tags.

The only sensible way around I can think of at the moment, is to let the

template pass through a pre-parser (basically a FORTE method), which

converts a self-defined syntax, accepted by Frontpage, into the proper

FORTE template syntax. In this way, one would never destroy the original

HTML template which can then be maintained in Frontpage with all the

WYSIWYG features.

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