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Posted: **Fri Nov 04, 2022 1:27 pm**

Hello,

I can't solve a problem with an oxy_editor combobox.

From this XML example:

<items>
               <item>
                  <title1>item1</title1>
               </item>
               <item>
                  <title2>item2</title2>
               </item>
               <item>
                  <title1>item3</title1>
               </item>
</items>

I created an oxy_editor combobox so that the user can choose his item.
As you can see there are two types of titles (title1 / title2).

This is the first version of the CSS code:

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content: oxy_editor(type, combo, edit, "@attr", editable, false, values, oxy_xpath('string-join(//item/title1 | //item/title2 , ",")'));

It works.

Now, this is the XML to be processed:

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<items>
               <item>
                  <title1>item1</title1>
               </item>
               <item>
                  <title2>ite,m2</title2>
               </item>
               <item>
                  <title1>item3</title1>
               </item>
</items>

The comma in the second title is a problem so I wrote something like that to handle it:

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  content: oxy_editor(type, combo, edit, "@attr", editable, false, values, oxy_xpath('replace(replace(string-join(//item/title1 | //item/title2 , "!!"), ",", ";"), "!!", ",")'));

The comma is replaced by a semicolon in the combobox which is a workaround but not a solution.

So my question, do you have a suggestion in order to display a comma instead of the semicolon?
How to escape the comma character inside the oxy_xpath?

Thank you,

Johann

Posted: **Mon Nov 07, 2022 3:37 pm**

Hello,

There is a note in the "Combo Box Form Control" documentation that says:

Typically, when you use a comma in the values of a form control, the content that follows a comma is considered a new value. If you want to include a comma in the values, precede the comma with two backslashes.

So, what you have to do is to replace "," with "\\\\," instead of ";".

Best regards,
Mihaela

Posted: **Mon Nov 07, 2022 7:12 pm**

Hello,

Ok, my bad on this.

I tried "\\," but it did not do the job.

4 backslashes were needed on the CSS side

Thank you,

Johann

Posted: **Tue Nov 08, 2022 10:32 am**

Hi,

We are glad that you fixed the problem. Please let us know if you encounter any other problems.

Best Regards,
Mihaela

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