Re: [Webmacro-devel] Minor whitespace issue?

[Lane S. <la...@op...>]

try rewriting it like a real programmer:

if () { } else { }
and see what you get.

-Lane

Marc Palmer wrote:

>
> Guys I just noticed something funny in some HTML output from WM:
>
>    <SELECT class="fieldentry" NAME="_dob_day">           <OPTION 
> VALUE="- None-" > -None-
>              <OPTION VALUE="1" > 1
>              <OPTION VALUE="2" > 2
>              <OPTION VALUE="3" > 3
>              <OPTION VALUE="4" > 4
>              <OPTION VALUE="5" > 5
>              <OPTION VALUE="6" > 6
>              <OPTION VALUE="7" > 7
>              <OPTION VALUE="8" > 8
>              <OPTION VALUE="9" > 9
>              <OPTION VALUE="10" > 10
>              <OPTION VALUE="11" > 11
>              <OPTION VALUE="12" > 12
>              <OPTION VALUE="13" > 13
>              <OPTION VALUE="14" > 14
>              <OPTION VALUE="15" > 15
>              <OPTION VALUE="16" > 16
>              <OPTION VALUE="17" > 17
>              <OPTION VALUE="18" > 18
>              <OPTION VALUE="19" > 19
>              <OPTION VALUE="20" > 20
>              <OPTION VALUE="21" > 21
>              <OPTION VALUE="22" > 22
>              <OPTION VALUE="23" > 23
>              <OPTION VALUE="24" > 24
>              <OPTION VALUE="25" > 25
>               <OPTION VALUE="26" SELECTED> 26
>              <OPTION VALUE="27" > 27
>              <OPTION VALUE="28" > 28
>              <OPTION VALUE="29" > 29
>              <OPTION VALUE="30" > 30
>              <OPTION VALUE="31" > 31
>       </SELECT>
>
> The bit that is "funny" is option 26. Why does it have an extra space?
>
> The code that proced it is:
>
> #macro intFieldChoice($action, $sch, $fieldValue, $showNoneItem)
>    <SELECT class="choiceField" 
> NAME="$OuterVars.Ignition.getFormFieldName($fieldValue.FormFieldName)">
>    #if ($showNoneItem)
>        <OPTION> -Choose-
>    #end
>    #foreach $choice in $fieldValue.MetaData
>        #if ($choice.Value == $fieldValue.Value)
>            #set $isChecked = "SELECTED"
>        #else
>            #set $isChecked = ""
>        #end
>        <OPTION VALUE="$choice.Value" $isChecked> $choice.Label
>    #end
>    </SELECT>
>    #showRequired( $fieldValue)
> #end
>
> ...and I can't see how an extra space gets in there just when the 
> option is SELECTED.
>
> Does anybody else think that this might be an obscure whitespace issue?
>
> The only thing I can think of is that the line that assigns "SELECTED" 
> is the first part of the #if clause.
>
> If people think this is not supposed to happen, then I will try to 
> isolate it and add to the WS unit tests.
>
> Marc


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