Problem with line breaks

[jefraroce]

Hello everyone,

I'm working in a report so I need to add line breaks in the tags. This only I could do using the raw tags {@tag}, however, I found some problems. The main problem is when there is a raw tag together other the first absorb the second one.

I think that happens because when I write in a word document @ It embeds this into many different xml tags, by example:

{@my_first_tag}{my_second_tag}

<w:p>
    <w:r>
        <w:t>{@</w:t>
    </w:r>
    <w:proofErr w:type="spellStart"/>
    <w:r>
        <w:t>my_first_tag</w:t>
    </w:r>
    <w:proofErr w:type="spellEnd"/>
    <w:r>
        <w:t>}</w:t>
    </w:r>
    <w:r>
        <w:t>{</w:t>
    </w:r>
    <w:proofErr w:type="spellStart"/>
    <w:r>
        <w:t>my_</w:t>
    </w:r>
    <w:r>
        <w:t>second</w:t>
    </w:r>
    <w:r>
        <w:t>_tag</w:t>
    </w:r>
    <w:proofErr w:type="spellEnd"/>
    <w:r>
        <w:t>}</w:t>
    </w:r>
</w:p>

{my_third_tag}

<w:p w:rsidR="00EC3159" w:rsidRDefault="00EC3159" w:rsidP="00EC3159">
    <w:r>
        <w:t>{my_third_tag}</w:t>
    </w:r>
</w:p>

I'm not sure about the real reason, but I think the seeker confused the start and end of the raw tags.

I'm a little noob in this, please can anyone help me?, is there other way to add line breaks?

[edi9999]

http://docxtemplater.readthedocs.org/en/latest/syntax.html#raw-xml-syntax

The raw xml syntax replaces the whole contents of a paragraph w:p so any additional text in the paragraph will seem to have been "deleted"

[glendel]

Hello guys, really awesome library, I am pretty happy with it! :) But sadly I am having the same issue, any workaround ? How could I do something like what @jefraroce says above, something like :

{@my_first_tag}{my_second_tag}

or like :

{@my_first_tag}{@my_second_tag}

Maybe I am not using the library as it must, or I am not creating the XML with the best structure, actually, and to be honest I did not understand pretty well what @edi9999 means with his comment! Sorry about! What do you mean, is it possible, is it a bug, is it a missing feature or just we are not using the library as it must ?

Please any help would be appreciated.

Thanks, and again it is an amazing library, congratulations! :)

[edi9999]

Writing

{@my_first_tag}{my_second_tag}

Or even

Hello {@my_first_tag}

Is misusing docxtemplater.

The @ at the beginning means "replace the xml of the current paragraph with scope.my_first_tag" so that means that everything else in that Paragraph will be removed.

A workaround is to put the text of the second tag in the first tag. (The tag must of course be valid xml)

[jefraroce]

I think that could be a solution to the problem with line breaks, if we can add "\n" to the normal tags {my_tag}, so, the library could be replace them with

<w:br/> 

directly. Maybe it could work!

[edi9999]

@jefraroce I won't be implementing \n to <w:br/> because it would increase complexity a lot (and could provoke side-effects) . See #159

[jefraroce]

@edi9999 and @glendel Thank you very much for your answers and for your time.