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bschanck5-Regular Member
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March 13, 2020
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FOSI savetext in fillval with ACL

  • March 13, 2020
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Using the FOSI in ArborText v6.1 I am trying to convert XML content to upper case for PDF bookmark. I using the following in the FOSI.

<att>

<fillval attname="pdfbookmark::changeCase" attloc="SYSTEM-FUNC" fillcat="savetext" fillchar="conrule">

<charsubset><savetext textid="subject.pdf" append="1"></charsubset>

</att>

With the ACL 

package pdfbookmark;
function changeCase(window,oid){
return toupper(oid_content(oid))
}

When I publish the using the FOSI the savetext content is not shown. 

When I use the same ACL for usetext in fillval it works.

Not sure why this is not working. 

Best answer by SuzanneNapoleon

You could try saving the return value to an unappended string and then saving that to the appended string. If that doesn't work, a solution using an ACL preprint process follows.

 

<fillval attname="pdfbookmark::changeCase" attloc="SYSTEM-FUNC" fillcat="savetext" fillchar="conrule">

<charsubset>

<savetext textid="subject.tmp" append="0">

<savetext textid="subject.pdf" conrule="subject.tmp" append="1">

</charsubset>

 

If the above doesn't work, this should:

 

1. Add a pseudo-attribute to be used by the title element.

 

2. Develop an ACL preprint process that finds each title, converts it to all caps, and writes it to the pseudo-attribute.

 

3. Change the FOSI to fillval from the pseudo-attribute instead of using #CONTENT.

 

Good luck!

Suzanne

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SuzanneNapoleon12-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
March 14, 2020

I don't think you need ACL for this. The highlt category can be used for all caps. For example:

 

<highlt inherit="1" allcap="1">

 

You can code highlt in a formatting pseudo-element and save it with #CONTENT to a text string:

 

<e-i-c gi="allcaps.fmt">
<charlist inherit="1">
<highlt inherit="1" allcap="1">
</charlist>
</e-i-c>
...
<savetext conrule="<allcaps.fmt>,#CONtENT,</allcaps.fmt>" textid=...

 

The highlt category is documented in Arbortext Help and in my book Practical FOSI, which is available at fosiexpert.com/Practical-FOSI.html. My FOSI QuickStart Tutorials are also available on my website.

 

Good luck!

Suzanne Napoleon
www.FOSIexpert.com
"WYSIWYG is last-century technology!"

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bschanck5-Regular MemberAuthor
5-Regular Member
March 14, 2020

I had tried that originally, but since this is used to create the PDF bookmark, this is ignored. That is why I was trying to use the ACL to force the text to be upper case.

Again, the ACL worked when used with usetext, but not savetext.

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SuzanneNapoleon12-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
March 15, 2020
I'm not sure I'm following you. Are you saying you tried this:
 
<savetext conrule="<allcaps.fmt>,#CONTENT,</allcaps.fmt>" textid="subject.pdf" append="1">
 
and it didn't work?
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