Hi Sebastian

I've been working through the Forms and List Module (which I had actually never used before - very powerful) and am just a little stuck on rendering one of my requirements...

I have a field, Fax:, and the user should input a Fax number. But if they don't input anything, I'd like the module to return "not available" for this field. Bottom line, if a user doesn't input data, I'd like alternate data to appear. I looked in the module help and it says, "You can also add alternative text that gets returned if the requested value is null or empty: [Token:Property|Format|Alternative]." I don't quite understand this... Could you provide an example, please..?

BTW, I'm using my own HTML and CSS and the render engine to render an XSLT file for me.

Thanks
Jon

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Hi Stefan (and Sebastian)

That's kinda the info I was looking for, thanks.

However - if you would entertain me on this one - I'm looking for something quite specific, and not sure if it's possible... Here goes...

I have a bunch of columns / fields and I want them inserted into a layout, like so:

<div class="wrapper">
    <h2>[Person's Title]</h2>
    <div class="foated-left">
        <h3>[Person's Name]</h3>
    </div>
    <div class="floated-right">
        <p>[Email]
        <br/>[Telephone]
	<br/>[Fax]</p>
    </div>
</div>

Pretty straight forward. I've already gotten this one right - using the XSLT generator / wizard in the module. But, you'll notice that the contact details display in a <p> and each item is on its own line (done so by using <br/>). If there is no telephone number, I don't want the <p> to have a hanging <br/> at the end... Accordingly, I'd like to implement the following:

I don't know the XSL for this, but I'll try articulate...

<xsl:choose>
  <xsl:when test="udt:columnname!='[Telehone]'">
    <br/><xsl:value-of select="udt:columnname" />
  </xsl:when>
  <xsl:otherwise></xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>

Where "<xsl:otherwise></xsl:otherwise>" would return nothing. i.e. no <br/>, no text, nothing.

Can this be done..?

Also, another thing I have noticed, is that when you try to insert a clearing div, like so: <div class="clear"></div> the XSL generator automatically inserts a non-breaking-space "&nbsp;". If I remove this, the layout breaks or simply doesn't work... What's the way around this..?

Thank you in advance.

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Hi Stefan

Thanks for that - I got it working perfectly... Only thing I had to add was disable-output-escaping="yes" to the value select.

My only other unresolved is that when I try to clear my floats using:

<div class="clear"></div>

The resulting XML / XHTML source renders the <div class="clear">, but not the closing tag </div>... Odd. And "breaks" the layout.

The only thing that helps solve this is

<div class="clear">&#160;</div>

I'm not sure if this has to do with the XML doc declarations..? But, ideally, I'd like to be able to render this without a dodgy spacer sitting in the middle of nowhere... Do you have a solution perhaps? (Incidentally, <br/> renders as <br> - which is also not right.)

Thanks in advance
Jon

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