Extraneous Code?

[pcalnan]

I removed conditioning from a bulleted list and noticed the following in the HTML code:

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<li MadCap:conditions=\"\">

Is it me or is that unnecessary?

[doc_guy]

This happens to your source (and your WebHelp output) files when you add a condition to an element, then remove it.

What happened was that at some point, you (or another author) applied a condition to this <li> element, and then later you came back and removed the condition. When this happens, the condition value is removed, but the attribute is left behind.

I wouldn't worry too much about it. If it bothers you, you can always do a global find/replace for

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MadCap:conditions=\"

and replace it with nothing.

[doc_guy]

Upon careful reading of your original post, you know how/why this happened. Sorry. This didn't have my full attention.

Yes. It is extraneous; the attribute is left behind. If it bothers you, you can do the find/replace I mentioned. I don't think it is a too big of a deal however; it doesn't affect the output in any way, and it only occurs if you add then remove a condition setting.

[pcalnan]

Thanks for the response, Paul.

I realized that it wasn't harmful code but it did strike me as somewhat wasteful. While it may only be a few characters that don't end up causing any problems, one of the selling points of Flare over RoboHELP was that it was much \"cleaner\" in the way that it handled and generated HTML code.

I know I'm being really nitpicky about this but I'd also argue that leaving \"code artifacts\" like this lying around post-generation is something that could stand \"tidying up\".

Just my NSHO.

[doc_guy]

Fair enough.

And actually, I think you're right on this one. I suggest you submit a bug report/feature request.

[ChristineShirey]

I'm searching the forum for information on how to remove a condition from a piece of text (say, three words), and your post tells me you might know something I haven't been able to figure out. Did this result from removing the condition manually (as opposed to removing it in batch using Analyzer)?

[quote="pcalnan"]I removed conditioning from a bulleted list and noticed the following in the HTML code:

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<li MadCap:conditions=\"\">

If yes, could you or somebody else chime in about what you did to remove the condition? (I'll worry about the extraneous code later.)

I can't find anything in Flare's or Analyzer's Help about removing a condition from a specific occurrence, so I've resorted to opening the topic in a text editor and removing the tags. <moan>

Thanks!
Christine

[LTinker68]

It depends on what you applied the condition to. (BTW, if you don't have show blocks, show spans, and show conditional indicators enabled, then you should do that now.)

If you selected some text in a paragraph, list, etc., then the conditional tag will show up at the top of the XML Editor. Right-click on that conditional indicator, select Conditions, then uncheck the condition(s) you don't want associated with that text.

If you applied the conditional tag to an entire tag block (<p>, <ol>, <h2>, etc.), then right-click on that block on the left side of the XML Editor (it'll be the color that matches the conditional tag), select Conditions, and uncheck the conditions you don't want.