Google Groups glitched out on me. To finish my post, is there a way to
◊(select) entire txexpr's from a document that are defined in Pollen.rkt?
The only way I can seem to get a return value from ◊(select) is when the
contents of the tag are a simple string.
On Friday, March 15, 2019 at 11:31:51 AM UTC-5, Brendan Stromberger wrote:
>
> Hi there, I'm trying to use ◊select in my template, but no matter what I
> try to select, it returns nothing when rendered.
>
> Here are some facts:
>
> - My template file is called hexagram-template.html.p
> - My .pm files that use this template are in the same directory, with
> the extension (unsure if this matters) *.poly.pm
> - I am certain that this template is being used by my .pm files.
> - The tags that I am trying to select from my template are unnested
> (not sure if that matters)
> - I am trying to use select in the following manner from my template
> file:
> ◊(select 'line-image doc)
> - line-image is a tag defined in my pollen.rkt file and used in my .pm
> files. It returns a txexpr. I want to use (select) to include this txexpr
> in my template. I want to use select this way, because I have 64
> individual
> pages that all have the exact same structure, and I want to pare those
> pages down to a bare minimum, and use my template to describe the layout
> entirely, so I can easily shift the layout of elements around within each
> page all at once. If I use ◊(->html doc) on its own, I lose a lot of that
> flexibility in this particular case.
> - I notice that if I have a tag in my document, for instance
> ◊hello{world}, and then use ◊(select 'hello doc) from my template, "world"
> is rendered correctly. Does select only handle cases where the tag returns
> a simple string? Is there a way to
>
>
>
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