setting Extended Attributes in presentation template

Hi,

I have a requirement that I have to generate n html corresponsing to n containers in dcr...That is there is one dcr.. and multiple htmls..I could do this using iw_ostream and iw_iterate But in this process..That is in the generation process itself I have to set the extended attributes to the generated n htmls...These extended attributes are the values that are captured into the textarea in dct...Can someone please how can do i this?

Thanks in Advance

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Adam Stoller

Hi,

I have a requirement that I have to generate n html corresponsing to n containers in dcr...That is there is one dcr.. and multiple htmls..I could do this using iw_ostream and iw_iterate But in this process..That is in the generation process itself I have to set the extended attributes to the generated n htmls...These extended attributes are the values that are captured into the textarea in dct...Can someone please how can do i this?

Thanks in Advance

I was following you up until the last part - however even with that I believe the answer is the same: iwextattr - read the CLT manual, experiment, you should be able to figure out how to do it.

nksaha

I have a code for setting the external attributes as:
my $cmdToSet = "iwextattr -s TeamSite/Templating/PrimaryDCR=$dcrName {full path of the HTML}

my $cmd2 = "iwextattr -s TeamSite/Templating/PrimaryDocumentType={data type} {full path of the HTML}

my $cmd3 = "iwextattr -s TeamSite/Templating/PrimaryPT= {full path of the HTML}

But after setting the external attributes to generated HTMLS files I am not able to get the Asian characters(i.e chineese japaneese korean) which are stored in my html files.

Without setting the external attributes I am able to see all asian characters properly in html files.

My question: is there any way to get those asian characters in html file with external attributes or can we set the charset value of generated html files?

Rick Poulin

My question: is there any way to get those asian characters in html file with external attributes or can we set the charset value of generated html files?

The unicode chars are in the HTML or in the filenames? By default, your PT streams should be writing out UTF-8, and setting extended attributes won't change the character encoding in the content...

nksaha

The unicodes characters are in genrated htmls and if I remove the code which is setting the external attributes for those htmls files I am able to get the unicode characters as it is.

Can you please help...coz I relly got stuck up with this!

Thanks in advance.

Adam Stoller

Are you explicitly setting the character encoding in the HTML file?
Is this a complete HTML file (html-head-body) or a snippet (no-head)?

nksaha

Hers is my head part
Perl Initializations

use TeamSite::Config;
my $currentDCRFullPath = iwpt_get_dcr_name();
my $fname = (split/\//, "$currentDCRFullPath")[-1];
my $dcrName = $fname;

#my $iwhome = TeamSite::Config::iwgethome();
open(DCR, "<$currentDCRFullPath") or task_failed("Could not read: '$file' ($!)");
my $xmlString = '';
{
local $/;
$xmlString = ;
}

and this is my code :

my $airLine = $rootnode->get_node('Airline');
my $airlineNameCN = $airLine->value('AirlineName_CN');
my $airlineNameHK = $airLine->value('AirlineName_HK');

iw_ostream buffer='airlineNameCN'
iw_value name= "$airlineNameCN"

iw_ostream buffer='airlineNameHK' file='htdocs/en/TestCMS/htmls/${airlineCode}_airlineName-CN.html'

So after setting the file name for htmls file I set the external attributes through the piece of code(attached earlier).

But the genereated htmls file are not contaning the unicode characters.

Please suggest!

Thanks.

Adam Stoller

Hers is my head part
<iw_comment>Perl Initializations</iw_comment>
<iw_perl>
use TeamSite::Config;
my $currentDCRFullPath = iwpt_get_dcr_name();
my $fname = (split/\//, "$currentDCRFullPath")[-1];
my $dcrName = $fname;
</iw_perl>
<iw_perl>
#my $iwhome = TeamSite::Config::iwgethome();
open(DCR, "<$currentDCRFullPath") or task_failed("Could not read: '$file' ($!)");
my $xmlString = '';
{
local $/;
$xmlString = <DCR>;
}

and this is my code :

my $airLine = $rootnode->get_node('Airline');
my $airlineNameCN = $airLine->value('AirlineName_CN');
my $airlineNameHK = $airLine->value('AirlineName_HK');

iw_ostream buffer='airlineNameCN'
iw_value name= "$airlineNameCN"

iw_ostream buffer='airlineNameHK' file='htdocs/en/TestCMS/htmls/${airlineCode}_airlineName-CN.html'

So after setting the file name for htmls file I set the external attributes through the piece of code(attached earlier).

But the genereated htmls file are not contaning the unicode characters.

Please suggest!

Thanks.

So - clearly you don't know how to preview your posts to make sure your code shows up correctly (fixed above) and you didn't understand my question.

I wasn't asking you about the PT code, though if you'd shown it all it might have answered the question; I was asking about the generated HTML code - is it a complete page or just a content fragment?

nksaha

Sorry for the previous post. I tried lot to make the post understandable but couldn't figure out how to escape those angle brackets.

Anyways answer to your question is : htmls code are just a content fragment without any html tags.

Thanks.

Adam Stoller

Anyways answer to your question is : htmls code are just a content fragment without any html tags.

Well then they probably won't render correctly by themselves unless you explicitly set the character encoding in the browser's (not TeamSite's) View menu, or unless displayed within the context of a complete HTML page that has explicitly specified the character encoding.