Ok, you are right, push towards code when the html gets convoluted, thanks.

On 19 Mar 2013, at 11:59, Johann Werner <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi John,
> 
> a good phrase someone wrote on this list long ago was: if something is 
> complicated to do in WO you are doing it wrong
> 
> So to your problem: your hyperlinks are differing in one or more attributes 
> so why not moving those attributes to your code and returning the appropriate 
> value there instead of making complicated HTML spaghetti ;-)
> 
> <ERXHyperlink href="$myConditionalHref">
> ... bunch of html that applies to both the above conditions
> </wo:ERXHyperlink>
> 
> 
> in code:
> 
> public String myConditionalHref() {
>       return condition ? value1 : value2;
> }
> 
> 
> Am 19.03.2013 um 12:35 schrieb John Pollard <[email protected]>:
> 
>> Is there any way to conditionally determine the opening html for a component 
>> only, not the whole thing?:
>> 
>> <wo:if condition="...">
>>  <wo:ERXHyperlink ...abc>
>> </wo:if>
>> <wo:else>
>> <wo:ERXHyperlink ...xyz>
>> </wo:else>
>> ... bunch of html that applies to both the above conditions
>> </wo:ERXHyperlink>
>> 
>> Trying it, I can't, I am told that the  <wo:ERXHyperlink ...abc> at the top 
>> is missing its closing tag, so presumably it has to be complete within the 
>> if clause.
>> 
>> My only solution seems to be to take the "  ... bunch of html that applies 
>> to both the above conditions" and put it into a different component, but 
>> that is a pain because that html invokes many methods from this component.
>> 
>> It feels like it would be nice to turn chunks of html into local 
>> html-only-components, that are part of the same WOComponent, but can be 
>> referenced more than once.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> John
> 
> 


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