Re: javascript find/delete

The task you've descibed is not one which I would typically do with
clearsilver. While some manipulation of data is possible in clearsilver, it is
not intended to be a full programming langauge such as PHP. Clearsilver is
designed to be used with a programming language such as Python, C, or Java. If
your goal is to load an HTML document, remove some of the contents of the
document, and send it otherwise intact, I would use Python instead.

However, I think there is more help I could provide if you explain more about
your application.

For example, I don't typically store data as an HTML document. Instead I would
store it as a set of fields, perhaps in a database, or in HDF files. I would
make a clearsilver template with the navigational HTML, into which these fields
are inserted to construct a fully valid document. This puts the format of the
website (such as navigational links, header, and footer) in a handful of
templates, instead of every stored document.

An explanation of the goals of your application and answers to the following
questions can help me give you some more suggestions:

1) why are your stored files 'html documents'?
2) where are the documents stored? (in the filesystem? in a database?)
3) why are you storing data as a html-table within the document? What code is
editing this html-table? Have you considered storing the file in a format other
than html?
4) how many 'documents' are there?
5) how do users normally edit the 'html table' at the bottom of the document?



-- andrew_d_kendrick wrote:
> i've just started working with clearsilver and have very little
> experience programming.  i'm trying to make a clearsilver template
> that searches an HTML document "page.document.content", finds a table
> and deletes it each time someone looks at the page. (there may be a
> better way to do this, i.e. without tables)
>
> i've added an HTML table at the bottom of our documents that users
> add/delete certain information so that i can filter the documents
> based on what was added or deleted in the table.  i don't want this
> information visible to people looking at the document, but i want it
> to exist on the backend so i can filter/search it.
>
> The only thing i've been able to make work is the following .cs
> template:
>
> backchop.cs
> <?cs set:backchop = string.slice(page.document.content, 0, -515) ?>
> <?cs var:backchop ?>
>
> The problem is that when people add/delete the wrong amount of data,
> backchop deletes more than just the table and screws up the HTML.
>
> Thanks - andy
>
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