Variables - escape or pereplace

[JohnZeman]

Reference Info Tips:

From what I gather from the help it seems to me the following two lines of code should each display a description formatted with line breaks between paragraphs however only the first one does.  Am I missing somnething?

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{File.MD.Composite\Description\Description\0|escape:true}

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{File.MD.Composite\Description\Description\0|pereplace:{cr}{lf}==<LineBreak/>;prefix:;postfix:}

I wanted to use the second example so I could also set the font color and size of the description.

[Mario]

This is best demonstrated like this:



1. Without escape, the file window tip performs the default escaping (because it needs to prevent unsafe metadata from breaking the layout)
2. escape:false => only escape unsafe characters. No change here because the file window info tip does it automatically
3. escape:true => also replace CR/LF pairs with <LineBreak/>

This function is to be used for XAML rendering like in the File Window Info tip or the Batch Processor, and there mainly in the form escape:true to indicate that you want CR/LF to be replaced by <LineBreak/>

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[Mario]

I took that example over into the help file as well.

[JohnZeman]

Ok, apparently I misunderstood the help page on this.  In the help screen shot below I misinterpreted the area in yellow to mean I could use pereplace instead of escape for info tips.  Now I understand escape is only for xml and not xml/html.

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