anybody have a clue how to 'indent' in an xml dropdown list? I've googled and gotten \u0020 ,which of course doesn't work.
I'm using leading dots for the time being
'. . . . qtr ending'
but uuuuugly.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: susannah,

Have you tried    

Add some non-breaking spaces like the following?

&|nbsp;&|nbsp;&|nbsp;&|nbsp;

Of course you may need a pipe character after the ampersand due to working with WF....

If it's really XML, then HTML entities are invalid and you need to use   instead of  .

HTML and XML collapse white-space to a single space, which includes space, tab, new-line and line-feed characters. Non-breakable spaces are exempt of that behaviour.

Another option may be to insert a <CDATA! section for the indentation. Not sure if that works though...

quote:

Originally posted by Francis Mariani:
Have you tried    

oui bien sur. ne marche pas. prints out the characters, same with & # 1 6 0
TABLE FILE CAR BY COUNTRY BY CAR ON TABLE SET HOLDLIST PRINTONLY
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT XML
END
...
now the job is to get leading spaces on CAR

You could try and use JavaScript to append each option, adding the spaces that you need, but multiple spaces etc. etc. etc.

Are you trying to group the cars by country in your drop down list?

If so, are the country values required to be selected?

If they are not to be selected, then look at creating your own drop down content using <optgroup>? I do this on occasion and use JavaScript to retrieve and insert as the select control innerHTML.

SET HOLDLIST = PRINTONLY
SET ASNAMES  = ON
SET NODATA   = ''
TABLE FILE CAR
  SUM COMPUTE CTRY_GRP/A50 MISSING ON = IF COUNTRY NE LAST COUNTRY THEN '<optgroup label="'||COUNTRY||'">' ELSE MISSING; AS ''
      COMPUTE CAR_OPT/A60             = '<option value="'||CAR||'">'||CAR||'</option>'; AS ''
   BY COUNTRY NOPRINT
   BY CAR NOPRINT
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT ALPHA
END

gives you -

<optgroup label="ENGLAND">                        <option value="JAGUAR">JAGUAR</option>                      
                                                  <option value="JENSEN">JENSEN</option>                      
                                                  <option value="TRIUMPH">TRIUMPH</option>                    
<optgroup label="FRANCE">                         <option value="PEUGEOT">PEUGEOT</option>                    
<optgroup label="ITALY">                          <option value="ALFA ROMEO">ALFA ROMEO</option>              
                                                  <option value="MASERATI">MASERATI</option>                  
<optgroup label="JAPAN">                          <option value="DATSUN">DATSUN</option>                      
                                                  <option value="TOYOTA">TOYOTA</option>                      
<optgroup label="W GERMANY">                      <option value="AUDI">AUDI</option>                          
                                                  <option value="BMW">BMW</option> 

T

thanks T, but that's not xml... I know I can do it in html with grouplabels and other ways (like just using a !IBI.FIL) but I gotta do it in xml.

Hi Susannah,

Do you mind explaining why you need the leading blanks, and why it needs to be in XML? Knowing exactly what this is for might help in coming up with workarounds.

Thanks,
Emily McAllister
Focal Point Moderator

WebFOCUS HTML Composer uses XML as format when retrieving data to populate all controls.

I'm kind of with Emily on this... Why does it need to be XML? If its a thing of needing to populate the drop downs through native HTML Composer, you can use an ajax call to populate it. The option is available in App Studio. Although my attempts at using it have been more frustrating than anything else, Susannah's needs might be more basic and something App Studio can handle. If its going to require Pre/Post processing though.... Good luck. The actual call seems to be hidden in a comment block (The xml island minimized and shoved into a comment.... smh).

As Francis said, xml chains.
the xml requirement is a given.
the leading blanks are a customer requirement.

In that case, wouldn't it help to use an "external procedure" to populate the controls so that you have control over what gets generated?

That is more difficult to use in chaining, but possible.

S,

Try this. I don't have 7706 available but it should be ok.

T

SET HOLDLIST  = PRINTONLY
SET ASNAMES   = ON

FILEDEF TEMPHLD2 DISK TEMPHLD2.FTM (APPEND
-RUN

DEFINE FILE CAR
  SHFT_BLNK/A1   = HEXBYT(160,'A1');
  CAR_INDENT/A60 = SHFT_BLNK|SHFT_BLNK|SHFT_BLNK|SHFT_BLNK|SHFT_BLNK|CAR;
END
TABLE FILE CAR
  SUM CAR_INDENT
      COMPUTE CTRY/I3 = IF COUNTRY EQ LAST COUNTRY THEN LAST CTRY ELSE LAST CTRY + 1;
   BY COUNTRY/A20
   BY CAR/A20
ON TABLE HOLD AS TEMPHLD1
END
-RUN

TABLE FILE TEMPHLD1
  SUM COUNTRY/A60 AS OPTION_DISP
      COMPUTE SORT/I2 = 1;
   BY CTRY
   BY COUNTRY     AS OPTION_VALU
ON TABLE HOLD AS TEMPHLD2
END
-RUN

TABLE FILE TEMPHLD1
  SUM CAR_INDENT AS OPTION_DISP
      COMPUTE SORT/I2 = 2;
   BY CTRY
   BY CAR        AS OPTION_VALU
ON TABLE HOLD AS TEMPHLD2
END
-RUN

TABLE FILE TEMPHLD2
  SUM OPTION_DISP
   BY CTRY NOPRINT
   BY SORT NOPRINT
   BY OPTION_VALU
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT XML
END
-RUN

Results in this -



Edited to add image

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Tony A,

you rock large time, T!

T, I get this
áááá2016 March
the hexbyt xlates to those funky a letters w/ accents

omg it works like a charm with HEXBYT(255

YAAAAYYYYYY

here's a site of interest
http://www.asciitable.com/

This message has been edited. Last edited by: susannah,

quote:

works like a charm with HEXBYT(255

Really pleased that it worked for you!

T