How to extract the label from a select tag?

For example, I have the following in a DCT:
<item name="Region" required="t">
<select>
<option value="1" label="US"/>
<option value="2" label="Canada"/>
<option value="3" label="North America"/>
</select>
</item>

I can retrieve the value from the option tag by doing the following in TPL:
<iw_iterate list="dcr.Region" var="region"><iw_value name='region'/></iw_iterate>

Can someone tell me if I can extract the label from the option tag as well? Thank you.

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james1

That information is not available in the DCR. The only place that is guaranteed to have that information is the DCT. So, as a worst-case scenario, you could parse the DCT, looking for your item, and then looking for your option.

Is is possible to modify the value to contain all of the data that you need? That would be simpler.

-- James

akshathp

And, why you can not have an if condition in the TPL for the label portion? I mean, you could check the value and based on that apply the same label (hardocded) in your TPL if this is one odd case.

I know this could be a crude solution but for one odd case it would work fine I guess.

Hope this helps.

Akshat Pramod Sharma
Interwoven Inc.

Migrateduser

look at the dcr, if the label is not stored then you can not easily retrieve the label name from the dcr (as it is not there). the only thing that I can think of is to 1) change the value so that it matches the label in the dct 2) use the dct parsing library to parse the dct itself associated with the dcr and retrieve the information from there.