[Zope] Whitespace in lines property

Tino Wildenhain tino@wildenhain.de
Thu, 07 Sep 2000 07:46:57 +0200


Hi Tim,

Tim Cook wrote:
> 
> Tino Wildenhain wrote:
> >
> > Hi Tim,
> >
> > Tim Cook wrote:
> > >
> > > Can anyone tell me why when I edit a lines property I get leading
> > > whitespace inserted?
> > > The first line gets seven & each one after that gets 10 spaces.
> > >
> > > I tried stripping it out but this didn't seem to have any effect.
> > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > <textarea name="alt_names:lines" rows="10" cols="50" >
> > > <dtml-in alt_names>
> > >   <dtml-let cur_item=sequence-item>
> >  ^^^ here                            ^here
> > >     <dtml-var "_.string.strip(cur_item)">
> >  ^^^^^ here                                ^here
> > >   </dtml-let>
> >  ^^^here       ^ here
> >
> > > </dtml-in>
> > > </textarea>
> > >
> >  here marks your whitespaces.
> >
> > try:
> >
> > <textarea name="alt_names:lines" rows="10" cols="50" >
> > <dtml-in alt_names><dtml-let cur_item=sequence-item><dtml-var
> > "_.string.strip(cur_item)">
> > </dtml-let></dtml-in></textarea>
> >
> > Ugly code, but...
> >
> 
> Well, "realize something NEW everyday!"
> It never crossed my mind that the space between my code elements
> would be rendered. DUH!

Hehe ;) I'm currently playing with a clean-up tag, to remove
whitespaces/empty 
lines in code. May be I release it, if its fully done. Stay tuned ;-)

Regards
Tino