From: Carl Youngblood <carl@...>
Date: 2003-12-24T14:21:54+09:00
Subject: amrita question

I'm having a weird problem with amrita.  I need to have the contents of 
a tag attribute be dynamically generated.  So, if my template file has:

<form method="post" action="<DYNAMIC CONTENT NEEDS TO BE PLACED HERE>">
	...
</form>

How do I do that?  I tried:

<form method="post" action="<span id="formaction"></span>">
	...
</form>

And amrita croaks during the parsing process.  Here is what I get:

/var/www/html/pt.fcgi:13
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/fcgi.rb:473:in `each_cgi'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/fcgi.rb:473:in `each'
/var/www/html/pt.fcgi:13:in `each_cgi'
/var/www/html/pt.fcgi:15
/var/www/pennytracker/include/controller.rb:31:in `process_request'
/var/www/pennytracker/include/authentication.rb:54:in 
`authenticate_if_needed'
/var/www/pennytracker/include/view.rb:42:in `display'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/amrita/template.rb:402:in `expand'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/amrita/template.rb:138:in `expand'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/amrita/template.rb:144:in `setup'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/amrita/template.rb:179:in `setup_template'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/amrita/template.rb:396:in `load_template'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/amrita/parser.rb:279:in `parse_file'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/amrita/parser.rb:279:in `open'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/amrita/parser.rb:280:in `parse_file'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/amrita/parser.rb:275:in `parse_io'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/amrita/parser.rb:301:in `parse'
error hapend in /var/www/pennytracker/templates/login.html:0(can't happen)
==>">">

Can somebody please explain how I can accomplish what I'm trying to do 
with amrita?  One way I know I can do it is to generate the whole <form> 
tag dynamically, but that seems kind of kludgy.  It would be better to 
have a way of inserting only a specific piece of text anywhere I wanted.

Thanks,

Carl Youngblood