How to retain slashes in tiddler titles when parsed in select?

[Steven Schneider]

I am using the <select> widget to allow users to make a selection.

The select field is  are choosing among tiddlers listed in the list field of my 

<$select tiddler="tiddlerToShow" default='Cover'>

<$list filter='[list<currentTiddler>]'>

<$vars target={{!!target}}>

<option value=<<target>>><$view field='caption'/></option>

</$vars>

</$list>

</$select>

The values of {{!!target}} have slashes in them, like this:

American Government and Politics in the Information Age//OEBPS/part-001-chapter-1-communication-in-the-information-age.xhtml

and thus [[tiddlerToShow]] gets this value instead:

American Government and Politics in the Information AgeOEBPS/part-001-chapter-1-communication-in-the-information-age.xhtml

Any thought?

//steve.

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[Eric Shulman]

1) There is no need to use <$vars>...</$vars> here... just write:

   <option value={{!!target}}>...</option>

2) I recommend using 'fallback' display within the <option>...</option>, so that if the "caption" field is not defined, the "target" field is shown.... and if "target" is not defined, the "title" field is shown, like this:

<option value={{!!target}}><$view field='caption'><$view field='target'><$view field='title'/></$view></$view></option>

3) I did a quick test on tiddlywiki.com, and the *contents* of [[tiddlerToShow]] DO have the double slash characters intact.  However, when you *view* that tiddler's content directly, the "//" is *parsed and rendered* (correctly) as TW syntax for "start italics"... and, because there is no matching "//" to "end italics", that formatting continues to the end of the text that is shown.

4) You can show the *unparsed* content by using (in some other tiddler)

   <$text text={{tiddlerToShow}}/>

enjoy,

-e

Eric Shulman

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[Steven Schneider]

Eric, thanks. Your suggestions are, as usual, right on. So I see that my select is creating a [[tiddlerToShow]] with the text field set to the name of a tiddler with "//" in its name.

I get how the <$text text={{tiddlerToShow}}/> works -- so I can see the content with the //....

But, how do I use my new tiddler [[tiddlerToShow]]? I need to be able to do <$link to={{tiddlerToShow}}>{{tiddlerToShow}}</$link> and <$transclude tiddler={{tiddlerToShow}}/>? There must be a magic text cleaning machine that interprets the slashes for what they are, and not as markup...?

//steve.

[Mark S.]

I'm trying to understand your data flow. What are the contents of the target field, and how do they differ from the title? If you put the title into target, then your scenarios (e.g. <$link to={{tiddlerToShow}}>{{tiddlerToShow}}</$link> and <$transclude tiddler={{tiddlerToShow}}/>) work fine (goes to tiddler and pulls contents respectively). This leads me to think that you have something other than the title in the target field, in which case your problems have nothing to do with the double slash.

Good luck,
Mark

[Mark S.]

Correction, if you link like this:

<$link to={{tiddlerToShow}}><$view tiddler=tiddlerToShow field=text/></$link>

it will both link and view correctly. However, even if you did it as <$link to={{tiddlerToShow}}>{{tiddlerToShow}}</$link> it would link correctly -- it would look slightly different, but given how long the title is I don't know if that's the biggest issue.

Mark

[Eric Shulman]

On Saturday, August 12, 2017 at 3:34:24 PM UTC-7, Steven Schneider wrote:

I get how the <$text text={{tiddlerToShow}}/> works -- so I can see the content with the //....

But, how do I use my new tiddler [[tiddlerToShow]]? I need to be able to do <$link to={{tiddlerToShow}}>{{tiddlerToShow}}</$link> and <$transclude tiddler={{tiddlerToShow}}/>? There must be a magic text cleaning machine that interprets the slashes for what they are, and not as markup...?

<$link to={{tiddlerToShow}}><$text text={{tiddlerToShow}}/></$link>

The "to" param of the <$link> widget is not *rendered*... thus, the "//" contained in the value is used as-is, and the <$text> widget within the link displays the tiddler title, with the "//" intact, as previously noted.

Likewise, with <$transclude tiddler={{tiddlerToShow}}/>, the "tiddler" param is not *rendered*... and the "//" is used as-is.

-e

[Steven Schneider]

Thanks, Eric & Mark. Got it to work as you suggested it would.. Much appreciated. //steve.