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empty container breaks templating?

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This DCT has an empty container that I use to control pagination:

<container name="paginate-1" hide-name="t" />

This generates the following DCR fragment:

<item name="paginate-1">
<value/>
</item>

When I open DCRs created with this DCT I get this error:

Templating Error Page
An exception was thrown: Content mismatch between data capture object "paginate-1" and DCR object "paginate-1".

WTF?

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JonathonG

Well, according to the datacapture5.0.dtd, the container element cannot be empty. So, it sounds like a bug with the validation code for datacapture.cfg. You shouldn't have been allowed to bring up a DCT that isn't valid to the DTD.

A suggested workaround: stick one hidden item in that container.

Jonathon
Independent Interwoven Contractor

Migrateduser

I agree and this is the workaround I am looking into - it just seems pretty silly that you could create a but not edit a DCR with an invalid DCT.

AKB

John,
I tried that before and it is really bad. Infact I tried with hidden field the same problem was there. Then I had a field and made it invisible using formAPI...My DCT Was more like

<record name="empty" type="content">
<item name="paginate-1"><value>
<item name="Title"><value></value></item></value>
</item></record>

looks like atleast one item is required...

Migrateduser

I got this working with what I consider to be a lame hack, but it should be fine until 6.x which has better pagination control. The DCT code (can be repeated as long as the identifiers are sequential):

<container name="paginate-1" hide-name="t">
<item name="paginate-1">
<text />
</item>
</container>

Here is the FormAPI I put in the defaultInitialization function shared to all of my DCTs:

var i = 0;
do
{
i++;
var item = IWDatacapture.getItem( '/paginate-' + i );

if ( item != null )
{
item.setVisible( false );
}
else
{
i = 0;
}
}
while( i != 0 );