String tags are container tags that process their contents somehow. Examples are the <sort> tag that sorts its contents and the <tablify> tag that creates good looking tables from tab separated text files.

The contents of an RXML container tag may contain other RXML tags. However, this is not as simple as it may seem since the outer tag is, by default, handled first. The following example will try to explain what happens.

Our example contains an <obox> tag enclosing a <smallcaps> tag.

Which will result in:

The first thing that will happen is that the RXML parser handles the <obox> tag, which creates some HTML table code to draw a box around its contents. The result from the first pass will be something like:

This result will then be parsed another time by the RXML parser, which will then run the <smallcaps> tag.

That the outer tag is handled first is usually not a problem, but in some special cases it will cause a problem. It is, therefore, possible to give the preparse attribute to all RXML container tags. This will cause the RXML parser to parse the contents of the tag before parsing the actual tag.

Below follows an example where the preparse attribute makes a huge difference.

generates

<smallcaps>Hello World</smallcaps>

while

generates

H<font size=-1>ELLO</font> W<font size=-1>ORLD</font>

Special Attributes

preparse

is not the only special attribute that can be given to all RXML tags. They are:

nooutput

The tag will generate no output at all. Side effects, for example sending queries to databases, will have effect.

noparse

Can be used with all container tags. The result of the tag will not be run through the RXML parser.

preparse

Can be used with all container tags. The contents of the tag will be run through the RXML parser before the tag itself is handled.

String tags

<ai>

Makes it possible to use a database of links.

<autoformat>

Replaces all line-feeds in the content with <br> tags.

<case>

Changes the case of the enclosed text.

<comment>

The contents will be completely removed from the page.

<doc>

Simplifies writing html examples. Within the <doc> tag { will be replaced by < and } by >. Thus eliminating the need to write &lt; and &gt; manually.

<fl>

Used to build folding lists.

<obox>

draws outlined boxes.

<smallcaps>

Prints the contents in smallcaps.

<sort>

Sorts the contents alphabetically.

<source>

Used to show examples of HTML or RXML code. It will first show the source code, then a separator and last the results of the code.

<spell>

Checks and marks common misspellings in the contents.

<tablify>

Generates tables from the contents.

<trimlines>

Removes all empty lines from the contents.