Repetitive Dynamic Content

part of a tutorial on the Dynamic Publishing System by Karl Goldstein

This lesson illustrates how to deal with repetitive dynamic content.

Create the specification file

Create a file named users.data in a test directory of your server and enter the following specification:

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Create the template

Note that the template uses the multiple tag to specify the formatting for each row returned by the users query:

The banding effect is accomplished with if statements using the rownum variable, which is set implicitly for each row processed by the multiple tag.

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