An attribute without any value

NicolasGraph · 2016-06-01 08:53:03

Hi,
How about using an attribute without any value (like the multiple attribute of select)?
I’m thinking to use it for attributes which support only on/off values (usually 0/1) or for an attribute which could support any value or no value at all…
Its works as far as I tried but Is there a reason to not do that?

NicolasGraph · 2016-06-01 10:55:48

In fact the case where it works seems to be an exception and I can’t make it works with other attributes… Does anyone already try this kind of thing?

colak · 2016-06-01 18:05:08

Hi Nicolas,

Never tried it but I think that you could get a more informed input if you could post some code.

NicolasGraph · 2016-06-01 19:11:54

colak wrote #299393:

Hi Nicolas,

Never tried it but I think that you could get a more informed input if you could post some code.

In fact you can take what ever plugin code which use an attribute as a switch, or even the plugin template, my code has nothing special; but I don’t think that it is possible to do what I tried because of the way attributes are built with latts(). I did what I wanted in a more usual way.

etc · 2016-06-02 07:54:19

NicolasGraph wrote #299395:

I don’t think that it is possible to do what I tried because of the way attributes are built with latts().

Hi Nicolas, not sure to understand, could you be more specific?

NicolasGraph · 2016-06-02 08:17:14

etc wrote #299403:

Hi Nicolas, not sure to understand, could you be more specific?

I was working on an improved version of oui_cookie for Txp 4.6 only; I have a display attribute which is a simple switch like there are in other plugins and I thought it could be nice to be able to do that: <txp:oui_cookie value="my_cookie" display /> instead of <txp:oui_cookie value="my_cookie" display="1" /> but I can’t make it work properly. Doesn’t latts() require a value for each attribute?

etc · 2016-06-02 08:30:31

NicolasGraph wrote #299404:

Doesn’t latts() require a value for each attribute?

No, it’s parse() that does not detect <txp:oui_cookie value="my_cookie" display /> as txp tag. It (currently) needs attr="value" pairs. That could be modified, but would be invalid (?) XML-wise.

NicolasGraph · 2016-06-02 09:18:08

etc wrote #299405:

No, it’s parse() that does not detect…

Oh, ok; good to know.

That could be modified, but would be invalid (?) XML-wise.

That’s where I’m starting to get lost; I don’t know XML a lot.
Edit: I think it is what you talk about?

Last edited by NicolasGraph (2016-06-02 09:32:18)

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