Re: Problems with href

[Denis Barbier <nospam@thanx>]

On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 04:14:30PM +0200, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I use a perlskript to randomly insert a link from a file containing
> all possible links. I do this in this way:
> 
> In my template-file:
> 
> /------ gp.wml-----------
> 
> some commands
> 
> <define-tag tipp>
> <: perl-commands stolen from a randomsig.pl :>
> </define-tag>
> 
> other commands
> 
> <tipp>
> 
> rest of file
> 
> \----------------------
> 
> This inserts a random link in place. Now I want to use href, so all
> links are wirtten in this way.
> 
> <href url="$(ROOT)/link1.html" name="Link 1">
> 
> The problem is that <href> is not converted into real links, because
> they are converted in pass 1 or 2 as written in the manual, and my
> perl-insertion is made in pass 3.
> 
> How can I solve this? I need <href> because I have to use
> $(ROOT). Some files are in subdirectories and must link from there.

I do not see why you need <href>,  you may write something like

  <define-tag tipp>
  <: perl-commands ...
     print '<a href="$(ROOT)/' . $randomlink . '">' . $randomtext . '</a>';
  :>
  </define-tag>

-- 
Denis Barbier
WML Maintainer
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