ENTITY from external DTD in Presentation Template

dholzenburg

Hi everybody,

I want to seperate some information from datacapture.cfg and presentation templates with <!ENTITY ..>-Definitions in an external DTD. For a datacapture.cfg it looks like this:

[html]




BlaBla Content Page




[/html]
My DTD looks like this:
[html]


[/html]

For datacapture.cfg it works fine. It replaces &iwperlCmd; and &branchPath; with the right values.

It does not work in a presentation template. I have something like this:
[html]






[/html]
iwpt_compile says something like this:
[html]
Could not open presentation template: /Master/WORKAREA/development/Templates/StaticPage/presentation/StaticPage.tpl
[/html]
It does not replace &branchPath; with the correct value. If I define the Entity internal, it is working. But an internal definition is not the right choice in this case.

If I change the path to the DTD to something else (a path where no config.dtd is existing), it does not change anything. It seems that the inclusion of an external dtd is not recognized (regardless of including the DTD by <!ENTITY ..> or by <!DOCTYPE ..>)

The question is: Is it a bug or a feature that an external DTD is not recognized in a presentation template?

Many thanks in advance,


Dirk Holzenburg

Adam Stoller

I want to seperate some information from datacapture.cfg and presentation templates with <!ENTITY ..>-Definitions in an external DTD. For a datacapture.cfg it looks like this: [html] ...[/html] For datacapture.cfg it works fine. It replaces &iwperlCmd; and &branchPath; with the right values. It does not work in a presentation template. I have something like this: [html] ...[/html] iwpt_compile says something like this: [html] Could not open presentation template: /Master/WORKAREA/development/Templates/StaticPage/presentation/StaticPage.tpl [/html] ...

I've never tried to do this (interesting idea though), but perhaps the issue might be due to the fact that your DCT specifies a DOCTYPE with SYSTEM and a "standard" DTD and then adds the entity definition - whereas your PT is not specifying SYSTEM and a "standard" DTD?

I'm not sure if there is a "standard" DTD for PT's - given that one can create custom tags by defining them as Perl modules you might be able to do something like this in your PT:

<iw_perl>
my $entity_file = "/default/main/config/WORKAREA/BlaBla/config.dtd";
open(IN, "<$entity_file") || die " '$entity_file' ($!)";
my %ENTITIES;
foreach my $e (<IN>){
    next if ($e !~ /ENTITY/);
    chomp($e);
    $e =~ s/>//; # remove end of entity tag
    my @tmp = split(/\s*/, $e);
    $ENTITY{$tmp[1]} = $tmp[2];
}
close(IN);
</iw_perl>

You could do the whole thing in Perl (my preference) and then just reference things like:

$ENTITIES{branchPath}

- or you could slip back into XML and reference them something like:

<iw_value name='ENTITIES{branchPath}'/>

Good luck - will be interesting in seeing what your end result turns out to be.

Note: In the future - please include information about product version(s) and platforms - and also try to post things in their appropriate forums - this one probably would have been better in the FormsPublisher forum.