Context Parameters in Appearance XSL

work4u

I need to know within my Appearance XSL if I am in preview or generate mode so I can output HTML code accordingly. I know there are parameters like $Context('preview') or $Context('runtime') which provides you with a Boolean value. However we are not using Runtime and I need to know the generate action.

So I tried the following in my Appearance XSL:

<xsl:template match="/">
<div>
<h1>Test</h1>
<xsl:variable name="isAction" select="'$PAGE_LINK[.]'"/>
Action=<xsl:value-of select="$isAction"/>

<xsl:if test="(contains($isAction, '/html'))">
This is Generate
</xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="contains($isAction, '/iw-preview')">
This is Preview
</xsl:if>
</div>
</xsl:template>

When I preview the component I get the following values for preview and generate:
Preview = Action=/iw-preview/52616e646f6d4956f0ee2bb58ee4a14ac3860ecfe4c30fc2704d53bd0f678db83cba22383e568676e17b127db05da35ab8effd0353fcb33296365f038d59eb7f29ebddf3d49f903e2b6daf69ef1763e6/fmxz14ku/7NetWave/test.page?

Generate=/html/site/test.html

However my XSLT test with contains fails to match. If I run the same code locally with an XML and perform a transform it works. Why is it not working in SitePublisher and not performing the match with the string.

Anybody with some suggestions or ideas? Need help please.

AlexC

Page tokens get evaluated after the XSLT, so you can't use them this way. I would write a prefix/external that adds a flag to the XML of whether it is Generate or Preview.

public Document addRenderingModeToModel(RequestContext context)
{
  Document doc = DocumentHelper.newDocument();

  // determine if this is preview or generate depending on version of LS
  // context.getPageLink() or context.getRenderingMode(), etc

  doc.addElement("RenderingMode").addElement("Preview");  // or .addElement("Html");

  return doc;
}

The output can be accessed by XSL using an existance check for /Properties/Data/Result/RendeingMode/Preview or ...../Html

Does that make sense?