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Saving DCR without HTML Encoded Characters

Bill Klish

TeamSite 5.5.2 SP4 - solaris

We are using a Custom DTD to create custom XML documents that are being read by an XSLT page on an application server. We need to have the html data be wrapped in CDATA tags when we hit the save element on the DCR.

For example if I have a text element or textarea element (visual format or not) named pageHeader has the following:

This is bold text

Then when I hit save, the DCR that is written contains:

<pageHeader>This is bold text</pageHeader>

What I would like to have is the following:

<pageHeader><![CDATA[This is bold text]]></pageHeader>

Is there an easy way to do this, or a switch that can be set in iw.cfg, or within the datacapture.cfg?

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Adam Stoller

I could be wrong, but I think the only way to really do this is to use a PT to process the DCR to generate the XML the way you want it.

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com

Bill Klish

I actually changed the syntax of the DCR to the way I want it and it was read back in correctly by the TeamSite Templating engine. But when I hit save, the html encoding happened again.

Adam Stoller

If this is a custom DTD - perhaps you can list elements like 'b' as being optional sub-elements of 'pageHeader'?

E.g.: <!ELEMENT pageHeader ((b|#PCDATA)?)+>
<!ELEMENT b (#PCDATA)> or something like that (I'm doing this off the top of my head, my DTD spec might be a bit off.

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com

Tanuj

I am looking for solution for same problem. If you find anything please let me know too.

milind

Hi,
Could you explain how to achieve it in .tpl file ?
I tried following in a .tpl file

<description><![CDATA[{iw_value name='dcr.banner.description'/}]]></description>

but in the output file it still gives <description>Description some data .....</description>

Could you help ?

Thanks & Regards

Milind

Migrateduser

If you're looking to produce, for instance:





<pageHeader><![CDATA[This is <b>bold text</b>]]></pageHeader>

Then a way to do it in a TPL is to let Perl manage your <![CDATA[ string. For instance,





$boundary_begin = qq^<![CDATA[^;
$boundary_end = qq^]]>^;
...
...
... (then, when outputting to STDOUT or to a file)
<pageHeader>
   <iw_value name='boundary_begin'/><iw_value name='dcr.PageHeader'/><iw_value name='boundary_end'/>
</pageHeader>

Your needs are slightly different than bk99d's, but hopefully you'll see how to get from one to the other.

Dave

Current Environments:
(1) TS 6.5 on W2K3
(2) TS 6.1 SP1 on W2K3
(3) Vignette V7 Portal on Solaris 9

JonathonG

Not sure what version of TS the question was asked for, but see this post for an issue with outputting CDATA tags and a solution to it.

Jonathon
Interwoven Developer
Allstate, Inc.