Processing unrelated nested Radius tags

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Hello,

I’m trying to process one radius tag inside another. For example, one
tag retrieves a photo name such as “Dave.jpg” and sticks it into the
page_attachments tag for an image:

<r:attachment:image name="<r:photo><r:photo:name /></r:photo>"
alt=“photograph” />

The resulting HTML output is…

<r:attachment:image name=“Dave.jpg” alt=“photograph” />

… but the problem is the <r:attachment:image> tag itself is never
processed, so the photo does not appear on the screen.

I’m guessing this is a tag scope issue. Any help?

Thanks,

  • Dave
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<r:attachment:image name="<r:photo><r:photo:name /></r:photo>" alt=“photograph” />

This also produces the same unprocessed <r:attachment:image> tag:

<r:attachment:image name="<r:photo><r:name /></r:photo>" />

This fails completely, however:

<r:attachment:image name="<r:photo:name />" />

“You have a nil object when you didn’t expect it! The error occurred
while evaluating nil.content_type”

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On 1/16/08, David P. [email protected] wrote:

<r:attachment:image name=“<r:photo><r:photo:name /></r:photo>” alt=“photograph” />

This fails because Radius can’t parse tags that are within attributes.
Why are you trying to do this? Is there a way to accomplish what you
want without using tags within attributes.

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John L.
http://wiseheartdesign.com

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John L. wrote:

On 1/16/08, David P. [email protected] wrote:

<r:attachment:image name=“<r:photo><r:photo:name /></r:photo>” alt=“photograph” />

This fails because Radius can’t parse tags that are within attributes.
Why are you trying to do this? Is there a way to accomplish what you
want without using tags within attributes.

My goal was to have a person’s name in the DB generate a filename that I
could pass to the page_attachments tag to grab. Example:

David P. → david_piehler.jpg → <r:attachment:image
name=“david_piehler.jpg” />

As you’ve said though, something like this is not possible due to the
way Radius tags are parsed. Thanks for clarifying this. I’ve since taken
a more heavy-handed approach to solve it.

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David P. wrote:

My goal was to have a person’s name in the DB generate a filename that I
could pass to the page_attachments tag to grab. Example:

David P. -> david_piehler.jpg -> <r:attachment:image
name=“david_piehler.jpg” />

As you’ve said though, something like this is not possible due to the
way Radius tags are parsed. Thanks for clarifying this. I’ve since taken
a more heavy-handed approach to solve it.

David,

The way I’ve found to do this is to use nested Radius tags that pass
information back up to the parent. However, the page_attachments tags
are currently not structured to support this. If they were, it might
look like this:

<r:attachment:image><r:name>david_piehler.jpg</r:name></r:attachment:image>

Obviously, you would use some of your own tags to generate the name.

Sean

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Sean C. wrote:

are currently not structured to support this. If they were, it might
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I don’t see why you couldn’t override <r:attachment:image> with your own
custom version that would permit either a ‘name’ or ‘user_name’
attribute like:

<r:attachment:image user_name=“David P.” />

Of course you’d have the issue of keeping your version of the tag in
sync with revisions to the PageAttachments extension. But it would
probably be pretty easy to implement too.

-Chris

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Chris P. wrote:

I don’t see why you couldn’t override <r:attachment:image> with your own
custom version that would permit either a ‘name’ or ‘user_name’
attribute like:

<r:attachment:image user_name=“David P.” />

Of course you’d have the issue of keeping your version of the tag in
sync with revisions to the PageAttachments extension. But it would
probably be pretty easy to implement too.

-Chris

That’s a good idea. If my temporary solution doesn’t work out, I’ll try
that. Thanks!

  • Dave