HTML Tag Cleaner Fails

[Peter T. Evensen]

Unless I misunderstand what you are saying, setting the htmlText of a field 
*should* process the (Revolution-supported) HTML in the text, otherwise 
setting the htmlText of a field would not be useful.  The whole point is 
being able to use the supported html tags to mark up text and then have it 
displayed properly in a field.  If you look at the documentation entry for 
htmlText, it is clear that this is exactly what this property is intended 
to do.

If you are saying it shouldn't process unsupported HTML tags, that is 
something different.  I'm not sure what it's behavior is.

I use htmlText in a project to strip out html by setting the htmlText of a 
hidden field and then getting the text of that field (instead of 
htmlText).  This neatly strips out the tags.  I am, however, only using the 
Revolution-supported tags in my text. I don't know why it is striping out 
text between  the <title> tags.

At 01:45 PM 8/8/2006, you wrote:

>On Aug 8, 2006, at 4:56 AM, Bill Marriott wrote:
>
>>Except that <title> has a defined, special meaning that Rev knows
>>about --
>>which is to specify the title of a document -- and that is by
>>definition
>>distinct from the content. The <foo> tag however, is undefined.
>>
>>I believe that it's appropriate to "strip" out the information
>>between title
>>tags and to preserve the information between "foo" tags.
>>
>>By reference, see:
>>
>>http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/HTMLandSGML.html
>
>That is an HTML document.
>
>You are assuming that a field and htmlText has something to do with
>HTML.
>
>What do you base this assumption on?
>
>It is clear that htmlText is a view that is html-like.  There is no
>reason to expect it to process HTML when it is dumped into the property.
>
>(Now, I do think htmlText when retrieved might be closer to HTML,
>such as the handling of white space, but that is a different issue.
>Maybe it is even possible for retrieved htmlText to closely render in
>HTML.)
>
>There is no reason to expect a field to process HTML when it is
>dumped into the field's htmlText property.
>
>Stripping <title> is bizarre.
>
>Dar Scott
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