Hi Girish,
As Gareth said, you can't really determine the exact formatted width that the term element's contents will have. But if a rule based on the number of characters is acceptable then you can accomplish what you need. To have different behaviour in the FOSI based on the amount of characters in the term element, you can set up an <att> rule in the e-i-c for term that calls an ACL function to determine the contents of the element in question. You would set up an att rule to handle each case like this:
<att> <specval attname="MoreThan15Chars" attloc="system-func" attval="1"> ... </att>
and
<att> <specval attname="MoreThan15Chars" attloc="system-func" attval="0"> ... </att>
and then you just need to create a MoreThan15Chars function. The oid of the element whose "e-i-c" contains the specvals will be passed to this function automatically, so you write the function like this:
function MoreThan15Chars(window, oid) {
return length(oid_content($oid)) > 15;
}
# This function will return 1 (true) if the content of the e-i-c is more than 15 characters, 0 (false) if it is equal to or less than 15 characters.
This assumes that you will create the <att> rules in the e-i-c for the term element; if you want to put them in the e-i-c for <def> instead then you would change it to something like:
return length(oid_content(oid_prev($oid))) > 15;
Hope this helps,
Dugald
