FOSI savetext in fillval with ACL

[bschanck]

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. 

[SuzanneNapoleon]

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!"

[bschanck]

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.

[SuzanneNapoleon]

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?

[bschanck]

I am using the subject.pdf later to create the PDF bookmark with 

!<atidmd:Bookmark state='closed'><atidmd:Title>!,subject.pdf,!</atidmd:Title></atidmd:Bookmark>!

It seems the "<allcaps.fmt>,#CONTENT,</allcaps.fmt>" it is not processed or ignored when the FOSI generates the PDF bookmark.

[bschanck]

I have attached a sample trying to use the <allcap> pseudo tag and the PDF result.

[SuzanneNapoleon · Accepted solution]

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

[bschanck]

This worked by using append="0" and subject.tmp.

Thanks for the help.