I have made a custom 'thank you' fluid template in powermail which needs to compare an option chosen in the form to an array item in a for loop.
The problem I have is that the comparison comes up false because the form value is using html entites and the array value does not.
So I tried using -> f:format.raw() and that will output the correct value on the page, but it still does not work in the if condition.
<f:for each="{items}" as="item">
<f:if condition="{data.value -> f:format.raw()} == {item}">
...
</f:if>
</f:for>
The template is a cobject fluidtemplate inside powermail's Form/Create.html
The character causing the problem is " which I think data.value is reporting as "
I found the best way around the problem is to do the opposite of f:format.raw and instead use f:format.htmlspecialchars on the values with doubleEncode="false".
Declaring these as new variables and then comparing them, makes sure the condition gives the correct result.
<f:variable name="selected"><f:format.htmlspecialchars doubleEncode="false">{data.value}</f:format.htmlspecialchars></f:variable>
<f:for each="{items}" as="item">
<f:variable name="itemValue"><f:format.htmlspecialchars doubleEncode="false">{item}</f:format.htmlspecialchars></f:variable>
<f:if condition="{selected} == {itemValue}">
...
</f:if>
</f:for>