[Xerte-dev] Re: Answer delimiter in dialog page

[Tom Reijnders]

Say you ask how many kg there are in 2500g. Type in the correct answer 
in the answer field as 2,5 (floating point in Dutch). That answer is not 
accepted if entered by the student in the flash version (xerte or xot). 
2 is, and 5 as well. HTML5 version only accepts 2,5 as the correct 
answer (which is what I want, but breaks previous behaviour.

By adding an optional delimiter that will only be used by the page if it 
set, you can solve this issue.

I don't propose to change the comma in to a semi-colon, because that 
will break previous behaviour as well.


Op 13-2-2013 21:33, Smith, John schreef:
> Is this in Xerte or in toolkits?
>
> I'm trying to reproduce and not really able to in XOT.
>
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> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Answer delimiter in dialog page
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>> by say a semi-colon.
> Is there any way to find out if a semi-colon would end up in a conflict in some other localization?
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>> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:21:00 +0100
>> From: reijnders at tor.nl
>> To: xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Answer delimiter in dialog page
>>
>> The answer in the flash version of the dialog is a ',' delimited string
>> of possible answers. I didn't know that at first, and wondering why the
>> string 2,5 ( the Dutch notation of the floating point number 2.5, we use
>> a decimal comma) wasn't working. So it turns out that the comma is used
>> to limit correct answers, so Xerte interprets 2,5 as "either 2 or 5".
>>
>> I've got two problems at the moment.
>>
>> 1. HTML 5 behaves differently, it doesn't use the comma as a delimiter
>> (and I think it should, or some LO's will break)
>>
>> 2. Do you mind if I introduce an optional delimiter to be able to
>> replace the comma, by say a semi-colon.
>>
>>
>> Tom
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