Forum OpenACS Development: Dynamically add property tags

Posted by Malte Sussdorff on 05/11/07 07:01 AM

I am in the need of having to dynamically (code based) pass property tags to the master. This means, I have a list of name value pairs which need to be passed as properties.

The initial idea of using:

set property_stuff "<property name=foo>value</property>" and adding @property_stuff;noquote@ to the .adp file does not work.

How would you do it?

Would having <multiple name=property_stuff><property name="@property_stuff.name@">@property_stuff.value@</property></multiple> work?

I am not sure how the parsing in ADP happens. The first approach fails because the property tags seem to be parsed before the variable substitution. We also tried <%= set property_stuff %> and the like, but that failed as well.

2: Re: Dynamically add property tags (response to 1)

Posted by Torben Brosten on 05/11/07 07:20 AM

Hi Malte,

If you are passing the properties from an include, take a look at this discussion for hints: https://openacs.org/xowiki/tip-passing-values-from-an-include

cheers,

Torben

3: Re: Dynamically add property tags (response to 2)

Posted by Malte Sussdorff on 05/11/07 11:52 AM

The Tip is helpful, but not really what I need. Here is the full story.

In the application there exists a custom master which expects the variable "root_menu" to be passed. The XoWIKI application does not know about this. So Gustaf and I tried to have a property_stuff variable in XoWIKI, which would contain the property_code so we could then put it up on the pages generated by the ADP Generator in xowiki.

From the TIP though I assume that we could just upvar the stuff through the ADP levels, though, hmm.....

4: Re: Dynamically add property tags (response to 1)

Posted by Dave Bauer on 05/11/07 04:45 PM

Some tags parse adp vars in the tag attributs, and some do now. So i would say, check out the include tag, for example, and fix the property tag to parse it's attributes.