Paths for sibling containers

pat333

Hi,

 

I have a datacapture form structured something like this:

 

<container name="conParent">
	<container name="conChild1" default="1" min="0" max="1">
             ....
	</container>
	<container name="conChild2" default="0" min="0" max="10" combination="or">
             ....
	</container>
</container>

 

In other words, I have a page segment that starts with a single instance of a container that can be removed that is followed by a container that allows many children. This is for a page with an optional banner at the top, followed by a list of different types of content.

 

My issue is, in my presentation template, I am able to locate the second child container only when the first doesn't exist in the datacapture output. e.g. If I add this to my PT:

 

<iw_iterate var="con" list="dcr.conParent.conChild2" iteration='content_count'>

....

</iw_iterate>

and I've already added a conParent.conChild1, when the template renders, dcr.conParent.conChild2 returns nothing. If I remove the sibling conChild1, dcr.conParent.conChild2 resolves to what I expect.

 

What am I missing?

Adam Stoller

This is off the top-of-my-head, so you may have to play around with it a bit - but basically what you need is nested loops - one to iterate over "conParent", and for each item it finds identify the 'type' of item (should be either "conChild1" or "conChild2") - and then you would have an inner-nested loop for conChild1 and another inner-nested loop for conChild2 - the latter checking the type of item it encounters since it could be any one of the OR type items that conChild2 is defined as being able to contain.