Hi,
well, you intro field is XML, so, depending on the content, you will run into more problems, when some HTML-Structure is not complete after 100 chars.
Option 1: Do not use an XML-Field, but a text field for the intro.
Option 2: Try to get rid of the HTML-Tags before you "shorten" the text. MAYBE the "wash" opertor will do it, but i'm not sure.
Try
{$:item.data_map.resource_introduction.data_text|wash|shorten(100)} and see, what happens. Look at the HTML-source of your page.
Note: If this works, it will remove all HTML-Tags and formatting (such as bold, links, tables). The other option would be to enhance the "shorten" operator to keep track of open HTML-Tags and close them, before returning the result. But i think, the operator cannot do this and there is no such operator (yet).
I had tried the wash operator, but it isn't producing the result. It translates the paragraph tags to someting like > < etc. The <p> tag itself is appearing in the webpage. The thing I needed was to somehow see that </P> doesnt come so that the [More] link doesn't get pushed to the next line. I achieved this by truncating the last four characters of the description which is </p> tag by using string handling functions.
I need to delete the <p> tag as well. If you happen to view this article still, would you mind to post an example of how you use the string function to delete the <p>?
Thanks in advance, Trond
You must be logged in to post messages in this topic!
