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Mini_Mathur

Hi Experts

In TPL file, which of the below code can be used or is correct:

[HTML]
 <title><iw_value name = '$test'/></title> ]] [/HTML] [HTML] <iw_perl> <![CDATA[ iwpt_output("<title>"$test"</title>\n"); ]] </iw_perl> [/HTML] Which is the better way of doing i.e. [HTML] a. putting everything in iwpt_output b. or putting in <iw_value name="****"/> [/HTML] What will be the difference between a and b and pros and cons of using one over the other.

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moonkhanna

I would consider it a matter of choice and how readable your PT is ..

Mini_Mathur

There must be some reason or some advantages of using one wrt other.

Please let me know what is the best practices for TPL coding.

Phanie

There must be some reason or some advantages of using one wrt other.

Please let me know what is the best practices for TPL coding.

Refer to this thread which was initiated by you for the same thing few days ago.

Now coming back there are no such "best practices document" documented anywhere (as was replied to you already in another post of yours) you will have your own pattern once you start designing PTs. If anyone or IW feels that there are few best practices that one can follow they would/could have already done that by now. Only best you could do now is go through example PTs provided by IW and see what way they are coding there PTs and follow it. Most of them here I hope would have started from there.

Instead I would raise this question .. what are the best practices one should follow for coding ASP/ASPX/JSP/HTML/XML pages? If you know that answer the same would be applied to your question too.

Rest upto the experts here if anyone want to handover the best practices of PT designining I really doubt if anyone would.

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Phanie

PriyankaMishra

Please check in the http://server/iw/help/tst/pt/TeamSite__PT__iw_iterate.html

Phanie

Please check in the http://server/iw/help/tst/pt/TeamSite__PT__iw_iterate.html

Never mind I guess you meant
http://yourserver/iw/help/tst/pt/

which has list & documentation of all PT tags

Adam Stoller

[QUOTE=Mini_Mathur]Hi Experts

In TPL file, which of the below code can be used or is correct:

<![CDATA[
<title><iw_value name = '$test'/></title>
]]>

<iw_perl>
<![CDATA[
iwpt_output("<title>"$test"</title>\n");
]]>
</iw_perl>

Which is the better way of doing i.e.

> tags (which pre-supposes that you are either using an <iw_pt/> tag or no such tag in your PT).Another thing to consider though is if you intend for your PT to be used with Non-OS Users (671SP1+) - in which case the choices provided are moot because you would need to code the whole thing in XSLT.Ignoring that last part though - I don't believe there is any performance difference between the options you asked about - it is (as was already pointed out) more of a stylistic preference.

Mini_Mathur

Hi

Thanks a lot Ghoti for your valuable inputs.

1. I will remove the CDATA tags when i am using iw_perl.

2. I am using CDATA tags directly inside TPL file to embed the html elements like below. Is it right way of doing or is there any other way.

[HTML]

....................
 .................... <div class="test"> ........... </body></html> 

[/HTML]

Adam Stoller

Hi

Thanks a lot Ghoti for your valuable inputs.

1. I will remove the CDATA tags when i am using iw_perl.

2. I am using CDATA tags directly inside TPL file to embed the html elements like below. Is it right way of doing or is there any other way.

[HTML]

....................
 .................... <div class="test"> ........... </body></html> 

[/HTML]

If you're using iw_pt tags as a container element, then you generally need CDATA tags surrounding Perl code and any non-balanced HTML tags (if you're using XHTML coding, I do not believe you need the CDATA tags).

If you use an empty iw_pt tag or no iw_pt tag - you do not need to use CDATA tags except in special circumstances. So:

<iw_pt name="...">
<p><![CDATA[<br>]]></p>
</iw_pt>
or
<iw_pt name="..."/>
<p><br></p>
or
<p><br></p>
<p><br /></p>

Mini_Mathur

If you're using iw_pt tags as a container element, then you generally need CDATA tags surrounding Perl code and any non-balanced HTML tags (if you're using XHTML coding, I do not believe you need the CDATA tags).

If you use an empty iw_pt tag or no iw_pt tag - you do not need to use CDATA tags except in special circumstances. So:
<iw_pt name="...">
<![CDATA[ ]]>
</iw_pt>
or
<iw_pt name="..."/>
 
or

Ghoti, what are those special circumstances. Please let me know any example for the special circumstances which you were talking in your last post.

Adam Stoller

Ghoti, what are those special circumstances. Please let me know any example for the special circumstances which you were talking in your last post.

I'm not 100% sure - but it's the kind of thing you'll know if you run into it - generally cases where your code contains characters that might conflict with the XML parsing, so in those cases you wrap them in CDATA tags - but I think it's pretty rare.