+Kan Nishida
A client wanted to give their users the ability to bold and italicize text for various verbiage in a contract. The interface is Siebel Hospitality.
A client wanted to give their users the ability to bold and italicize text for various verbiage in a contract. The interface is Siebel Hospitality.
I chose an uncommon character, caret (^) to delimit the text. The caret at the beginning of the text segment turns on the bold/italics and the caret at the end of the text segment turns off the formatting. You can use this many times in the text.
The pseudo code is as follows:
Count the number of characters in the text.
Starting at the beginning of the text, look at each character.
If the character is other than the tilde then just output it.
If the character is a tilde then just set a flag.
There are two form fields. One is for plain text and the other is for formatted text. It the flag is set then print the character in the formatted form field otherwise, print the character in the unformulated form field.
For some reason, spaces are ignored so code has been added to put the spaces in.
Here is the code (note: code can be put in form fields):
The test text:
<?variable:s;string(‘Now is the time for all ^good men^ to come to the aid of their ^commarades^.’)?>
Initialize and set the flag variable "hit":
<?xdoxslt:set_variable($_XDOCTX,'hit',1)?>
Display the test text: <?$s?>
This is the loop and all the code should go on one line:
<?for-each@inlines:xdoxslt:foreach_number($_XDOCTX,1,string-length($s),1)?>
This code sets the flag on and off when it hits the delimiter character. In my case it is the caret.
<?variable:s;string(‘Now is the time for all ^good men^ to come to the aid of their ^commarades^.’)?>
Initialize and set the flag variable "hit":
<?xdoxslt:set_variable($_XDOCTX,'hit',1)?>
Display the test text: <?$s?>
This is the loop and all the code should go on one line:
<?for-each@inlines:xdoxslt:foreach_number($_XDOCTX,1,string-length($s),1)?>
This code sets the flag on and off when it hits the delimiter character. In my case it is the caret.
<?if@inlines:substring($s,position(),1) = '^'?><?xdoxslt:set_variable($_XDOCTX,'hit',xdoxslt:get_variable($_XDOCTX,'hit') * -1)?> <?end if?>
The code below should go in a form field with plain text.
<?xdoxslt:ifelse(xdoxslt:get_variable($_XDOCTX,'hit') = -1 ,'',xdoxslt:ifelse(substring($s,position(),1) = '^','',substring($s,position(),1)))?>
The code below should go in a form field with formatted text. In my case it will be bold and italicized:
<?xdoxslt:ifelse(xdoxslt:get_variable($_XDOCTX,'hit')
= -1 ,'',xdoxslt:ifelse(substring($s,position(),1) =
'^','',substring($s,position(),1)))?>
Insert this code in a form field before a space:
<?if@inlines:substring($s,position(),1) = ' '?>
Insert this code in a form field after a space:
<?end if?>
Close the loop.
<?end for-each?>
