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Property Element

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The Property element is used to return the property from the context of the current ForEach loop. When a view or field is selected, the Property element can be used to retrieve a specific attribute value from it.

Syntax

<Property
  AutoHyperLink = "TRUE" | "FALSE"
  AutoNewLine = "TRUE" | "FALSE"
  HTMLEncode = "TRUE" | "FALSE"
  Select = "Text"
  URLEncodeAsURL = "TRUE" | "FALSE">
</Property>

Attributes

Name Description
AutoHyperLink Optional Boolean. TRUE to surround text with <A> tags if the text appears like a hyperlink, for example, www.example.com.
AutoNewLine Optional Boolean. TRUE to insert <BR> tags into the text stream and to replace multiple spaces with a nonbreaking space (&nbsp;).
HTMLEncode Optional Boolean. TRUE to convert embedded characters so that they are displayed as text in the browser. In other words, characters that could be confused with HTML tags are converted to entities.
Select Required Text. Specifies the name of the property to select.
URLEncode Optional Boolean. TRUE to convert special characters, such as spaces, to quoted UTF-8 format, for example, %c3%ab for character ë.
URLEncodeAsURL Optional Boolean. Like URLEncode, but TRUE to specify that the string to encode is a path component of a URL so that forward slashes ("/") are not encoded.

Remarks

The line <Property Select="."/> returns the body of the element in the schema that is being enumerated. For example, within a ForEach statement such as <ForEach Select="CHOICES/CHOICE">, specifying <Property Select="."/> would return the text of one of the conditionals.

If a property cannot be found, a subelement of the current element in the schema enumeration is evaluated whose name is equal to the text specified by Select. For example, if a Field element has no property called Default, then <Property Select="Default"/> will also search for a subelement called Default and render its body text if found.

Example

The following line of code returns the Name property from the current field or view.

<Property Select="Name"/>