[TYPO3] CASE treats field values as TS - is this desired?

[Sacha Vorbeck]

Hi,

probably I get something wrong but I think CASE is not handling strings
correctly.

The story:
I have a site that uses the templateselector. Besides my standard
template I have two additional templates called
twocolumn.htm
and
threecolumn.htm

When a user selects a template, an appropriate stylesheet should be
included. Therefore I added the field tx_rlmptmplselector_main_tmpl to
the rootline fields and use its value to decide which stylesheet to include:

page = PAGE
page {
  headerData.5 = COA
  headerData.5 {
    40 = CASE
    40 {
      key.data = levelfield : -1 , tx_rlmptmplselector_main_tmpl , slide
      twocols.htm = TEXT
      twocols.htm {
        value (
       	  <style type="text/css">
       	    @import "twocols.css";
       	  </style>
        )
      }
      threecols.htm = TEXT
      threecols.htm {
        value (
       	  <style type="text/css">
       	    @import "threecols.css";
       	  </style>
        )
      }
      default = TEXT
      default {
        value (
       	  <style type="text/css">
       	    @import "normal.css";
       	  </style>
        )
      }
    }
  }
}

This doesn`t work because the TS parser thinks that .htm is a property
of twocols and doesn`t regard twocols.htm as a string to compare with
the field value.

My workaround was to use substring:

temp.selectedTemplate = COA
temp.selectedTemplate {
  10 = TEXT
  10 {
    data = levelfield : -1 , tx_rlmptmplselector_main_tmpl , slide
    substring = 0,-4
  }
}

And then use the substring-ed value in the CASE object:

    40 = CASE
    40 {
      key < temp.selectedTemplate
      twocols = TEXT
      twocols {
        value (
       	  <style type="text/css">
       	    @import "twocols.css";
       	  </style>
        )
      }
      threecols = TEXT
      threecols {
        value (
       	  <style type="text/css">
       	    @import "threecols.css";
       	  </style>
        )
      }
      default = TEXT
      default {
        value (
       	  <style type="text/css">
       	    @import "normal.css";
       	  </style>
        )
      }
    }

This works but I`m still wondering if it is correct or makes sense that
CASE treats the string values as TS-objects.

Any comments?

-- 
thank you - all the best,
  Sacha