[albatross-users] Problem with Macro Expand/Usearg

Sat May 31 07:28:34 EST 2003

I'm having a problem with a Macro, where as far as I can see, I've set 
everything properly, but an arg I've set (actually two out of three) for 
this macro do not get substituted.

I'm baffled.

Here is the page display function:

def page_display(ctx):
    if ctx.has_value('_errmssg'):
        ctx.run_template('loginerr.html')
        ctx.clear_locals()
        return
    ctx.load_template('commonmacros.html')
    ctx.run_template('login.html')
    authlib.update_session(ctx)

The "commonmacros.html" file contains this macro:

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<al-macro name="qaheader">
<html>
<head>
<title><al-usearg name="page_title"></title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/qa/styles.css" type="text/css">
<al-usearg="js_scripts">
</head>
<body <al-usearg="body_tags"> leftmargin=0 topmargin=0 marginwidth=0 
marginheight=0 bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<!-- Top Purple Nav Table -->
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" height="30">
  <tr>
    <td bgcolor="#8F32B4"><font color="#FFFFFF">
    [CompanyName] [Help] [About]</font></td>
  </tr>
</table>

      <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
        <tr>
          <td align="right"><img src="/qaimg/curve.gif" width="300" 
height="50" align="left" vspace="0" hspace="0"><img src="/qaimg/qalogo.gif" 
width="200" height="40" vspace="8" hspace="5"><img src="/qaimg/fqlogo3.gif" 
width="75" height="56" vspace="5" hspace="25"></td>
      </table>

</al-macro>
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As you can see, there are three <al-setarg> tags, with names:

page_title
js_scripts
body_tags

And here is where the macro is called in the login.html file:

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<!-- Begin page header -->

<al-expand name="qaheader">
<al-setarg name="page_title">Login</al-setarg>
<al-setarg name="js_scripts"><script language="JavaScript">
<!-- Hide Me
function focusField(){
 var form = window.document.forms[0];
 form.username.focus();
}
// Show Me -->
</script></al-setarg>
<al-setarg name="body_tags">onLoad="focusField();" </al-setarg>
</al-expand>

<!-- End page header -->
---------------------------------------------------

So, I am passing all three arguments to the macro. I have studied this
and I DO have closing tags for everything.

Yet, when I run the page, only the page_title argument gets passed to the 
output. the js_scripts and body_tags arguments do not get touched at all, 
for some reason.

Here is the output HTML page (the portion that applies):

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<!-- Begin page header -->

<html>
<head>
<title>Login</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/qa/styles.css" type="text/css">
<al-usearg="js_scripts">
</head>
<body ><al-usearg="body_tags"> leftmargin=0 topmargin=0 marginwidth=0 
marginheight=0 bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<!-- Top Purple Nav Table -->
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" height="30">
  <tr>
    <td bgcolor="#8F32B4"><font color="#FFFFFF">

    [CompanyName] [Help] [About]</font></td>
  </tr>
</table>

      <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
        <tr>
          <td align="right"><img src="/qaimg/curve.gif" width="300" 
height="50" align="left" vspace="0" hspace="0"><img src="/qaimg/qalogo.gif" 
width="200" height="40" vspace="8" hspace="5"><img src="/qaimg/fqlogo3.gif" 
width="75" height="56" vspace="5" hspace="25"></td>
      </table>

<!-- End page header -->
---------------------------------------------------

What am I doing wrong? Why won't the macro substitute the last two user 
args?

Thanks for your help,

-- 
Sheila King
http://www.thinkspot.net/sheila/
http://www.k12groups.org