Replace

derekjohnston

I have developed a datacapture.cfg which consists only of a text area.

The contents of this textarea will be placed in a table with an outline border.

In the template I check if the text area is not empty and I display the table and contents. If not I display nothing.

However if a user accidently leaves a space in the html =>   the table is displayed with nothing in it.

So I wrote some perl script to replace all the   and check if the content was empty.

However the   seems to a reserved word in homesite and the script does not work in teamsite but will work in a activeperl .

Perl scrip is:

<iw_perl>

$htmlContent = iwpt_dcr_value('dcr.CustomerAlert.html');
$remove = '&nbsp;';
$replace = "";
$htmlContent =~ s/$remove/$replace/g;

</iw_perl>


has anyone any suggestions

JonathonG

My guess is that the xml parser that runs on your presentation template is gobbling up the entity. To verify this, try something like:

$remove = '&' . 'nbsp;';
$htmlContent =~ s/$remove//g;

If you get an error from this, then you probably need to make your iw_pt tag at the top of your presentation template self-closing, e.g. <iw_pt/>

If none of this helps, try posting your entire pt and maybe someone here can figure out what's going on.

Jonathon
Interwoven Developer
Allstate, Inc.