This turns out to be very subtle. I've tracked this down, but I'm going to
need to think about it for a while longer before knowing the best way to fix
it.

(What follows doesn't directly affect your problem, and I suspect you know
this already, but it is worth pointing out anyway).

An important point to remember when using classifiers and format statements
is the difference between document nodes and classifier nodes. Document nodes
link to the documents in your collection, which have metadata. Therefore, you
can specify things like [dc.Date] and [dc.Title] (or whatever) in your format
statements.

Classifier nodes, on the other hand, are created by the classifier to build
up the browsing structure. These may contain multiple children, some of which
may be document nodes. But, these nodes contain very little metadata - only
that added by the classifier (most commonly Title, which I have to say I
think is a terrible name and always confuses me... something like Label would
have been much better). Therefore, saying {If}{[numleafdocs],
<strong>[link][Title][dc.Date][/link]</strong>} is "invalid" in this
situation, because [dc.Date] will never evaluate to anything (the classifier
node doesn't know anything about the metadata of the documents it contains).

I hope to get back to you tomorrow with a fix to the C++ code.

Regards,

Michael

Stephen.DeGabrielle@cdu.edu.au wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a metadata field [dc.date] with a value '[1910]'. It includes the
> square brackets, as the date is not from the item itself, but from the
> caltaloguer (as per AACR2 rules)
>
> Weirdly the [1910] won't appear in the browse list (AZCompactList), but
> appears in the group head expanded. (It comes through as [Title] for the
> head, and works fine for each item (as [dc.Date]).
>
> I'm stumped. Any idea what is going on? or how I can fix it?
>
> Stephen
>
> -images attached-
>
> --config.cfg-lines-
> classify AZCompactList -metadata dc.Date -mingroup 1 -buttonname
> Year
>
> format CL3VList '<td valign=top>[link][icon][/link] {If}
> {[numleafdocs],<strong>[link][Title][dc.Date][/link]</strong>,
> [dc.Title] by [dc.Creator] [dc.Date]}</td>'
>
> --snip--
> [HASH01ea77c0a9947c3c85f58bcc]
> <doctype>doc
> <hastxt>1
> <Language>pt
> <Encoding>utf8
> <Source>3556956.pdf
> <dc.Title>A mao d'Obra em timor.
> <ar.Resolution>600dpi
> <dc.Creator>\[J G Montalvo e Silva\]
> <ar.Creator>Stephen De Gabrielle
> <ar.CallNumber>RBC 959.86 SILV
> <ar.Barcode>3556956
> <dc.Date>\[1910\]
> <dc.Subject>\[Timor Timur\]
> <Title>/home/sdegabrielle/myhome/arada/gsdl/collect/etimor/tmp/3556956
> <GENERATOR>pdftohtml 0.34
> <URL>http://3556956.html
> <srclink><a href="/gsdl/collect/gsarch/index/assoc/[archivedir]/doc.pdf">
> <srcicon>
> </srclink></a>
> <assocfilepath>HASH01ea.dir
> <archivedir>HASH01ea.dir
> <thistype>Paged
> <docnum>12
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