Re: [Xsltforms-support] TinyMCE

[Kristian K. <kri...@ek...>]

I now removed the TinyMCE fields from my production code and moved it to 
a development branch. Thus it is unclear when I can give you further 
feedback. Since the html I got from the tinymce editor isn't xhtml I 
need to solve the problem of having html as textual data in my xml. 
Right now I got tired of the problem and reverted back to pure text 
instead. The text get's converted into <p>aragraphs in my xml database, 
thus searching for example a string in the second paragraph is easily 
done with XPath. With the html it became a nightmare :(

If anyone has good pointers for best practices on handling (non-xml) 
html inside xml, I'm eager to read and learn.

Thank you very much, Alain. I will try to get back to TinyMCE, it would 
help my users but now it seriously impacted and started to tear on my 
XRX design.

Kristian

19.05.2015 23:14, Alain Couthures kirjutas:
> Hello Kristian,
>
> I think that I have just found a workaround for the getContent() issue 
> with TinyMCE4 when adding a line: I have added a test to avoid useless 
> setContent() call when value is actually unchanged...
>
> Please have a look at latest revision (rev.615).
>
> Thank you for your feedback!
>
> --Alain
>
> Le 19/05/2015 10:12, Kristian Kankainen a écrit :
>> The thing that irritate me the most with these bogus elements, is 
>> that they seem not be valid according to my TinyMCE settings. Since I 
>> keep getting <br> instead of <br /> I can't parse the input as XML.
>>
>> My current solution is to delete (in the serialised string) the bogus 
>> elements, convert <br> to <br/> and then parse the (hopefully valid) 
>> xml and delete all the rest of the @data-mce* attributes.
>>
>> This is very fragile and I would insist in using the API method since 
>> that is what it is there for... What is the major issue using it in 
>> XSLTForms? Looking at the TinyMCE4 API documentation it doesn't seem 
>> to have changed and is still the supposed way of getting "clean" 
>> content from the editor.
>>
>> Kristian
>>
>> 18.05.2015 23:26, Alain Couthures kirjutas:
>>> Hello Kristian,
>>>
>>> This forum post seems too old to be related to TinyMCE4. With 
>>> TinyMCE3, the getContent() method worked perfectly for each event 
>>> that XSLTForms has to capture. Unfortunately, with TinyMCE4, there 
>>> is a major issue using this method as soon as a new line is entered...
>>>
>>> That is why I had to search for an alternative solution and the 
>>> innerHTML property seems good enough except for some extra 
>>> attributes that you have noticed. Do you think that some regular 
>>> expression could remove them?
>>>
>>> --Alain
>>>
>>> Le 14/05/2015 23:39, Kristian Kankainen a écrit :
>>>> Hello again!
>>>>
>>>> Okey, I now understood and accepted that the content has to be 
>>>> serialized. But I now get un-clean input from the TinyMCE equipped 
>>>> fields.
>>>>
>>>> I get (serialized) <br data-mce-bogus="1"> elements saved in my 
>>>> database. I understand TinyMCE uses these elements internally so 
>>>> that users can put the cursor inside empty elements when clicking. 
>>>> But these bogus elements should be automatically cleaned away 
>>>> before the form data gets sent to the server!
>>>> Reading the whole thread about the problem, this post [1] by the 
>>>> main developer says that:
>>>>> Use the proper API:s tinymce.activeEditor.getContent() or save 
>>>>> etc. Raw HTML should never be stored or extracted. TinyMCE never 
>>>>> produces any internal data-mce-bogus output if you use our methods 
>>>>> for content extraction.
>>>>
>>>> Could this be the problem in XSLTForms, that the proper API isn't 
>>>> used? I'm sorry I can't look at the code myself. This is my TinyMCE 
>>>> config in XSLTForms:
>>>>>       <schema xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" 
>>>>> targetNamespace="http://www.agencexml.com/xsltforms/rte">
>>>>>         <simpleType name="standardHTML">
>>>>>           <restriction base="xf:HTMLFragment" 
>>>>> xsltforms:rte="TinyMCE"/>
>>>>>           <annotation>
>>>>>             <appinfo>
>>>>>               {
>>>>>                 element_format : "xhtml",
>>>>>                 browser_spellcheck: true,
>>>>>                 entity_encoding: "numeric",
>>>>>                 cleanup: true,
>>>>>                 plugins: [
>>>>>                   "autolink lists link charmap",
>>>>>                   "searchreplace code fullscreen",
>>>>>                   "insertdatetime paste"
>>>>>                 ],
>>>>>                 toolbar: "undo redo | bold italic underline | 
>>>>> alignleft aligncenter alignright alignjustify | bullist numlist 
>>>>> outdent indent | link | charmap",
>>>>>                 statusbar : false
>>>>>               }
>>>>>             </appinfo>
>>>>>           </annotation>
>>>>>         </simpleType>
>>>>>       </schema>
>>>> I use version 4.1.9 of TinyMCE and I think the XSLTForms code is 
>>>> version 614.
>>>>
>>>> Can I send some more information for reproducing this?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you in advance
>>>> Kristian K
>>>>
>>>> [1] http://www.tinymce.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=109291#p109291
>>>>
>>>
>>
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