How does one preserve hard returns in PT output?

I have a requirement to generate an XML file as part of an integration with Siebel CRM. It's a straightforward process to create the file but, somewhere along the way, the "hard returns" in textareas for paragraphs and extra blank lines are lost during the iwpt_compile. The result in Siebel is one long paragraph of text instead of a number of smaller paragraphs as seen in the DCT.

Is there any way to preserve the hard returns without having to resort to special markers and post-processing the file?

THANKS!

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akshathp

One way:
Have the <iw _perl> tag get some perl coding for you. Fetch the DCR filed in a perl variable and use regex to convery all "\n" to <br> html tag.

Hope this helps!

Akshat Pramod Sharma
Interwoven Inc.

smigster

Thanks for the quick response. However, I am NOT generating HTML but XML so a <br> to separate paragraphs would not help.

By the way, when I manually iwpt_compile my DCR my output includes the hard returns in the output XML.... and then some because I get two newlines for each hard return.

Based on that I would have to surmise that iwpt_compile is not eating my returns so they've go to be filtered out further along the data interface with Siebel.

Migrateduser

Are you using a textarea instance in a DCT to enter the data? If so, make sure the textarea's wrap attribute is set to "physical" to preserve eol chars.

bw

Bob Walden [bob.walden@interwoven.com]
Interwoven Education Group
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smigster

Thanks for the suggestion. This might come in handy in the future. The DCRs I have now are all generated via a bulkload program so I did not have a problem with "virtual" eol chars.