How can I set the contents of a page include as a variable in a macro? Or can I strip out the tags from a page include?(Confluence)

[Steve Goldberg]

So I'm trying to do something along the lines of:

#set($paramversion = {include:globalpages:_TemplateVersionCurrent})

I want the contents of the page "_TemplateCurrentVersion" to be set as a variable so that I can use it throughout the macro.

I have tried merely using {include:globalpages:_TemplateVersionCurrent} in the places that I want it, which works to an extent, except that it also includes the <p> tags, which is no good if I am using it for a URL (as it returns "<p>v10</p>" rather than "v10"). This gets me http://mydomain.com/latesttemplates/<p>v10</p> instead of http://mydomain.com/latesttemplates/v10.

So I want to know if it's possible to strip the <p> tags out and store it is a variable.

Thanks

[David at David Simpson Apps]

If you want to remove the HTML tags, you could try something like this:

#set( $html = "<p>xxx</p>" )
#set( $plain = $html.replaceAll("\\<.*?>","") )
$plain ## should give just "xxx"

...or similar.

This is clearly not foolproof but might be almost good enough.

[Steve Goldberg]

Hey David,

You are on to something. Technically what you've written is correct but it seems that when it comes to stripping out the code, it does not recognise the <p> tags when it's doing the .replaceAll function and so doesn't strip it out. This means that when it comes to putting in the URL, it still has the <p> tags in. I think it's because it doesn't see it as plain text until it reaches the URL.

Does that make sense?