loading dcr as is in TPL

How do I load dcr as is in a tpl ?

I have a container dcr which has references to other dcr as values.

For eg. the container dcr (container.dcr) is as follows....
<container>
<item name ="a">
<value>dcr1</value>
</item>
<item name ="b">
<value>dcr2</value>
</item>
</container>

I want to generate an html that will include the dcr1 and dcr2 in its entirety when I merge tpl with container.dcr.

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Adam Stoller

When you say you want to include dcr1 and dcr2 in their entirety do you mean completely un-processed - as raw XML - or are you planning to process them with PT directives?

Also - do the fields that include dcr1 and dcr2 contain (a) full file-system paths, (b) full vpaths, (c) area-relative paths, or (d) just the filename itself?

For that matter, are all the DCRs of the same category/type, same category/different type, different category/type, different branch?

Last, but not least, what version of TeamSite / TeamSite templating are you using, on what [server] platform?

--fish
(Interwoven, Curriculum Development)

conmgmt

<<When you say you want to include dcr1 and dcr2 in their entirety do you mean completely un-processed - as raw XML - or are you planning to process them with PT directives?
>>
Answer --- yes, we want to include them as raw xml.

<<Also - do the fields that include dcr1 and dcr2 contain (a) full file-system paths, (b) full vpaths, (c) area-relative paths, or (d) just the filename
itself?>>
Answer --- just the file name.....but dcr1, dcr2 each belong to a different category/type. So in my tpl I can probably have the path put in before appending dcr1 and dcr2.

<<For that matter, are all the DCRs of the same category/type, same category/different type, different category/type,
different branch?>>
Answer --- The dcrs are different category/type

<<Last, but not least, what version of TeamSite / TeamSite templating are you using, on what [server]
platform?>>
Answer --- Teamsite v5.5.2 on Solaris

Adam Stoller

I think you could do what you want within an emedded iw_perl tag - i.e. if you have the path to the file in question, open it, and use iwpt_output() to spit it out. It might take a bit of trial-and-error to get it right as you may have to do some encoding/decoding to ensure that the XML tag delimeters '<>' stay as such and not get translated into '<' and '>' - but I think it should be fairly straight forward coding.

--fish
(Interwoven, Curriculum Development)

Migrateduser

DCRnode.pm is also helpful if you have any need to parse or even just serialize the DCR XML.

conmgmt

I am trying to do it this way....

<iw_perl><![CDATA[
$filename = iwpt_dcr_value('dcr.1');
]]>
<iw_include file='full-path/{iw_value name="$filename"/} '/>
</iw-perl>

I am not able to reference filename in <iw_include>. How can I reference it ?

Is there any issues with this approach ?

Adam Stoller

For one thing, if you're giving iw_include a full file-system path as a parameter, I think you need to specify mode="cwd"

I think you also may need to use 'file_val' and not 'file'

And, although I think the concatenation should probably work, if you're going to set a variable $filename - why not put the entire path in there?

my $filename = "full-path/" . iwpt_dcr_value('dcr.1');

Then, I think you can call iw_include like:

< iw_include file_val='$filename' mode='cwd'/>

You might, for debugging purposes, either stick a printout (iw_output) of $filename somewhere so that you can verify that it looks correct - or perhaps better yet, compile with iwpt_compile.ipl using the '-ocode' flag, and then run through the Perl debugger.

Hope that helps

--fish
(Interwoven, Curriculum Development)

conmgmt

<iw_include file_val='$full_filename' mode='cwd'/> didn't work. In this case the compile works fine, but the file does not get included in the ouput.

I tried doing it this way...
<iw_include file='$full_filename' mode='cwd'/> but I get the error on the compile
- Use of uninitialized value at (eval 13) line 78

Adam Stoller

Have you tried using iwpt_compile.ipl with '-ocode' and then walking through the resultant perl script with iwperl -d Smiley Tongue

tkdb scriptname ?

I'm sure it's something "real simple" - but it's very hard to diagnose unless you're walking through the actual scenario (and I'm not)

--fish
(Interwoven, Curriculum Development)