RX 5.7 snippet code

Rhythmyx Technical Discussion
1

hi all

i have a variant where i simply want to include a managed navigation slot contained in a ul. when i drag this onto the workbench it complains with the following

Could not process the HTML file for querying. “tidy” has failed.
Missing closing tag for opening tag: start slot nav_TopPONew

if i replace my ul with a div, i don’t get the error message. however, i don’t want a div. ideally i don’t even want the ul, i just want the snippet code. full variant code below - can anybody explain this weird error.

thanks
michelle

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>psx-sys_title</title>
<link psx-href="$rxs_navbase/css/TouristMain.css" rel="stylesheet" href="css/TouristHome.css" type="text/css" />
<!-- begin XSL -->
<xsl:comment><![CDATA[[if IE 6]>
  <link href="../web_resources/POTourist/css/TouristMainIE6.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<![endif]]]></xsl:comment>
<xsl:comment><![CDATA[[if IE 7]>
  <link href="../web_resources/POTourist/css/TouristMainIE7.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<![endif]]]></xsl:comment>
<!-- end XSL -->
<style type="text/css">
	ul#TopNav {padding-left:0;}
	ul.MainNav li a{font-size:0.6em;}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../web_resources/POTourist/js/jquery-1.3.1.min.js">;</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../web_resources/POTourist/js/dummyHover.js">;</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
	$(document).ready(function() {
		SetUpHover();
	});
</script>


</head>
</body>
	<ul id="TopNav" class="MainNav">
		<!-- start slot nav_TopPONew -->
		<!-- start snippet wrapper -->
		<span psxeditslot="no" slotname="nav_TopPONew">top nav here</span>
		<!-- end snippet wrapper -->
		<!-- end slot nav_TopPONew -->
	</ul>
</body>
</html>
2

hi all

i have a similar problem as below. i have rx slot code

 	<!-- start slot nav_midPO -->
			<!-- start snippet wrapper -->
			<span psxeditslot="no" slotname="nav_midPO" />
			<!-- end snippet wrapper -->
			<!-- end slot nav_midPO -->
			<!-- begin xsl -->

when i wrap a ul around this i get the tidy error when dragging onto the workbench. anybody know why i am getting this and how i can fix it.

thanks
michelle

3

True, you can’t have a UL without an LI or Tidy is unhappy.

Here’s an example from one of our snippets if it helps…


<ul class="toc_lnks">
<!-- start slot -->
<!-- start snippet wrapper -->
<li class="toc_lnks">
<span psxeditslot="no" slotname="QueryIndexResult" />
</li>
<!-- end snippet wrapper -->
<!-- end slot -->
</ul>

I believe the ul tag should move after the start slot line if there is a possibility the list is ever empty to supress the UL (in our case that doesn’t happen).

4

thanks ruth

but it is the insertion of the ul that causes tidy to complain. my snippet code produces an li. this snippet is allowed in a slot. i need to wrap the slot code in the ul.

if i omit the ul altogether rx somehow and for some reason inserts a ul with class=“noindent” around each li - this is not what i need - i need a single ul around the output of the slot.

cheers
michelle

5

Hi Michelle

If that’s the case then you may have to create a slot template. I would however think about making your snippet template more generic by removing the li and adding them to the slot markup.

Cheers
James

6

Hi James

i have tried this. The slot template is a navigation template. I have successfully put the ul in here. However, this template uses the PSOMutateSlotVariants function - and if i include the li in this template, rx refuses to perform the transformation. It does include the li and ul successfully but does not transform the variants.

thanks
michelle

7

Don’t know if this is related to your problem, but your opening body tag is actually a closing tag. This may cause problems elsewhere.

8

thanks paul - that initial message was posted a long time ago and the closing body tag does not appear now