Re: Reminder for beta testers
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2000
It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = On 30/4/2000 2:50, Grant Hulbert said:>Most notable is the fact that it is no longer possible to override >built-in tags (like [ipaddress]) or page variables with incoming form >fields. Some people have written WebDNA that makes use of this old >accidental side-effect, and that code will have to be rewritten on >your end.I use this a lot and will miss it very much. It's the cleanest way to initialise optional variables, when many different forms link to the one page. I use[text]optionalfield=[/text]at the beginning of the template, relying on the fact that if there IS a form value supplied it will override the blank setting.Do I really have to go back to the horrible[showif [optionalfield]=[raw][optionalfield][/raw]][text]optionalfield=[/text][/sho wif]? But wait!>But under XML >syntax, we know for certain that you're trying to get at a variable, >because there's no ambiguity about
being a WebDNA construct. >So in that case we output undefined in its place. We are planning >to add a preference that lets you set this to blank or undefined or >whatever else you want.So please please make it possible for us to easily, as a Webcatalog-wide option, make undefined variables show up as blank. Thomas Wedderburn-Bisshop CIO, Woomera Net Solutions www.woomeranet.com.au Sydney, Australia Phone +61 2 9633 5048 fax +61 2 9633 5248 ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to Send administrative queries to
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On 30/4/2000 2:50, Grant Hulbert said:>Most notable is the fact that it is no longer possible to override >built-in tags (like [ipaddress]) or page variables with incoming form >fields. Some people have written WebDNA that makes use of this old >accidental side-effect, and that code will have to be rewritten on >your end.I use this a lot and will miss it very much. It's the cleanest way to initialise optional variables, when many different forms link to the one page. I use[text]optionalfield=[/text]at the beginning of the template, relying on the fact that if there IS a form value supplied it will override the blank setting.Do I really have to go back to the horrible[showif [optionalfield]=[raw][optionalfield][/raw]][text]optionalfield=[/text][/sho wif]? But wait!>But under XML >syntax, we know for certain that you're trying to get at a variable, >because there's no ambiguity about being a WebDNA construct. >So in that case we output undefined in its place. We are planning >to add a preference that lets you set this to blank or undefined or >whatever else you want.So please please make it possible for us to easily, as a Webcatalog-wide option, make undefined variables show up as blank. Thomas Wedderburn-Bisshop CIO, Woomera Net Solutions www.woomeranet.com.au Sydney, Australia Phone +61 2 9633 5048 fax +61 2 9633 5248 ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to Send administrative queries to
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