The Most Requested Features and
Techniques for Stylesheets
Renee Teatro
Information Builders
Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 1
The Stylesheet Facility – Features and Techniques
LINEBREAK Attribute: TYPE=REPORT,LINEBREAK='type',$
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WebFOCUS Release 7.1.3
Respect CARRIAGE RETURNs (CR) and LINE FEEDs (LF)
ALPHANUMERIC fields – both An and AnV formats
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REPORT is the type of report component. TYPE must be REPORT; otherwise an error will
result.
'type‘ specifies that line breaks will be inserted in a report based on the following:
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LF
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Inserts a line break after each line-feed character found in all An and AnV fields.
CR
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Inserts a line break after each carriage-return character found in all An and AnV
fields.
LFCR
 Inserts a line break after each combination of a line-feed character followed by a
carriage-return character found in all An and AnV fields.
CRLF
 Inserts a line break after each combination of a carriage-return character followed by
a line-feed character found in all An and AnV fields.
If An/AnV fields are included in HEADINGs (SUBHEADs, SUBFOOTs), WRAP=n attribute
must be included in the Stylesheet syntax for these fields to make the LINEBREAK attribute
effective.
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The Stylesheet Facility – Features and Techniques
LINEBREAK Attribute: TYPE=REPORT,LINEBREAK='type',$
DEFINE FILE CAR
CR/A1 = HEXBYT(13, 'A1');
LF/A1 = HEXBYT(10, 'A1');
CRLF/A2 = CR || LF;
ABC1/A5 = EDIT (COUNTRY, '99999');
ABC2/A10 = EDIT (COUNTRY, '$$$$$9999999999');
ABC3/A30 = ABC1 || CRLF || ABC2;
ABC4/A30V = ABC1 || CRLF || ABC2;
END
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
ABC3 ABC4
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=REPORT,LINEBREAK='CRLF',$
ENDSTYLE
END
Works for PDF and EXL2K
What about HTML?
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The Stylesheet Facility – Features and Techniques
LINEBREAK Attribute: TYPE=REPORT,LINEBREAK='type',$
…
<TABLE BORDER CELLPADDING=1>
<TR>
<TD COLSPAN=2>
<TABLE CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH="100%"><TR>
<TD>
PAGE
1</TD></TR></TABLE></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD VALIGN=BOTTOM>
ABC3</TD>
<TD VALIGN=BOTTOM>
ABC4</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD>
ENGLA
ND</TD>
<TD>
ENGLA
ND</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD>
JAPAN
</TD>
<TD>
JAPAN
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD>
ITALY
</TD>
<TD>
ITALY
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD>
W GER
MANY</TD>
…
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The Stylesheet Facility – Features and Techniques
LINEBREAK Attribute: TYPE=REPORT,LINEBREAK='type',$
DEFINE FILE CAR
CR/A1 = HEXBYT(13, 'A1');
LF/A1 = HEXBYT(10, 'A1');
CRLF/A2 = CR || LF;
ABC1/A5 = EDIT (COUNTRY, '99999');
ABC2/A10 = EDIT (COUNTRY, '$$$$$9999999999');
ABC3/A30 = ABC1 || CRLF || ABC2;
ABC3A/A32=STRREP(32,ABC3,2,CRLF,4,'<BR>',32,'A32');
ABC4/A30V = ABC1 || CRLF || ABC2;
ABC4A/A32V=STRREP(32,ABC4,2,CRLF,4,'<BR>',32,'A32V');
END
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
ABC3A ABC4A
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT HTML
END
Use Global Replacement of CRLF with <BR>
or
Use <PRE> tag at beginning and </PRE> at
end of field
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The Stylesheet Facility – Features and Techniques
Conditional Styling – WHEN Attribute
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT COUNTRY CAR SEATS
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
DEFMACRO=COND1,STYLE=BOLD,COLOR=BLUE,
WHEN=SEATS LT 4,$
DEFMACRO=COND2,COLOR=RED,WHEN=SEATS EQ 5,$
TYPE=DATA,MACRO=COND1,COLUMN=SEATS,$
TYPE=DATA,MACRO=COND2,COLUMN=SEATS,STYLE=ITALIC,$
ENDSTYLE
END
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The Stylesheet Facility – Features and Techniques
Sequential Conditional Styling – WHEN Attribute
TABLE FILE CAR
" SALES REVENUE "
SUM COUNTRY CAR
BY HIGHEST SALES
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=DATA,BACKCOLOR=AQUA,STYLE=BOLD,
WHEN=SALES GT 25000,$
TYPE=DATA,BACKCOLOR=GREEN,STYLE=BOLD,
WHEN=SALES GT 10000,$
TYPE=DATA,BACKCOLOR=PINK,STYLE=BOLD,
WHEN=SALES GT 1,$
TYPE=DATA,BACKCOLOR=RED,STYLE=BOLD,$
END
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The Stylesheet Facility – Features and Techniques
Alternate Row Colors – BACKCOLOR Attribute
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT CAR MODEL SEATS
BY COUNTRY
WHERE COUNTRY EQ 'ENGLAND' OR 'ITALY'
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=DATA, BACKCOLOR=('AQUA' 'WHITE'),$
ENDSTYLE
END
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The Stylesheet Facility – Features and Techniques
Alternate Row Colors – BACKCOLOR Attribute
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT RCOST DCOST SEATS
BY COUNTRY
BY CAR
BY MODEL
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=DATA,
BACKCOLOR=(BY=COUNTRY 'AQUA' 'WHITE' 'RED'),$
ENDSTYLE
END
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The Stylesheet Facility – Features and Techniques
SKIPLINE Attribute – PDF Format
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT DEALER_COST RETAIL_COST
BY COUNTRY SKIP-LINE
BY CAR
BY MODEL
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=SKIPLINE,BACKCOLOR=RED,$
ENDSTYLE
END
Designed for styling only – Not to generate line
Works for PDF
What about EXL2K and HTML?
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The Stylesheet Facility – Features and Techniques
SKIPLINE Attribute – Generate effect for EXL2K / HTML
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT DEALER_COST RETAIL_COST
BY COUNTRY SUBFOOT
" "
BY CAR
BY MODEL
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT EXL2K
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=SUBFOOT,BACKCOLOR=RED,$
ENDSTYLE
END
Use ON sortfield SUBFOOT syntax
to generate line
Use TYPE=SUBFOOT for styling
Works for both EXL2K and HTML
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The Stylesheet Facility – Features and Techniques
TITLETEXT Attribute: TYPE=REPORT,TITLETEXT=txt,$
TABLE FILE CAR
SUM RCOST DCOST
BY COUNTRY
BY CAR
BY MODEL
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT EXL2K
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=REPORT,FONT=COURIER NEW,
TITLETEXT='Car Sales Report',$
ENDSTYLE
END
Excel limits the length of worksheet titles to 31 characters.
The following special characters cannot be used:
':', '?', '*', and '/'.
What happens with HTML?
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The Stylesheet Facility – Features and Techniques
TITLETEXT Attribute: TYPE=REPORT,TITLETEXT=txt,$
TABLE FILE CAR
SUM RCOST DCOST
BY COUNTRY
BY CAR
BY MODEL
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT HTML
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=REPORT,FONT=COURIER NEW,
TITLETEXT='Car Sales Report',$
ENDSTYLE
END
Using HTML allows the Browser Title
to be customized
Feature not applicable to PDF
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The Stylesheet Facility – Features and Techniques
- (Dash) Option – Remove one attribute while retaining another
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
'CAR.ORIGIN.COUNTRY'
'CAR.COMP.CAR'
'CAR.CARREC.MODEL'
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM OFF
ON TABLE NOTOTAL
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT HTML
ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=REPORT,
GRID=OFF,
$
TYPE=TITLE,
STYLE=BOLD,
$
TYPE=TITLE,
STYLE=-UNDERLINE,
WHEN=1 EQ 1,
$
ENDSTYLE
END
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The Stylesheet Facility – Features and Techniques
Conditional Display of SUBHEADs and SUBFOOTs
TABLE FILE CAR
SUM SALES
BY COUNTRY
ON COUNTRY SUBHEAD
"This is my Subhead Text"
WHEN SALES GT 30000
ON COUNTRY PAGE-BREAK
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=SUBHEAD,BACKCOLOR=YELLOW,STYLE=BOLD,$
ENDSTYLE
END
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The Stylesheet Facility – Features and Techniques
Conditional Display of HEADINGs and FOOTINGs
TABLE FILE CAR
SUM SALES
BY COUNTRY
ON COUNTRY PAGE-BREAK
FOOTING
" Here is my Page Footing text -> Need More Sales"
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=FOOTING,COLOR=WHITE,
WHEN=SALES GT 30000,$
ENDSTYLE
END
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The Stylesheet Facility – Features and Techniques
Conditional Style of COLUMN-TOTAL value
TABLE FILE CAR
SUM RCOST DCOST BY COUNTRY BY CAR
ON TABLE COLUMN-TOTAL
ON TABLE ROW-TOTAL
ON TABLE SET ONLINE-FMT HTML
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=TITLE,COLUMN=ROWTOTAL,BACKCOLOR=YELLOW,$
TYPE=DATA,COLUMN=ROWTOTAL,BACKCOLOR=WHITE,COLOR=BLUE,$
TYPE=GRANDTOTAL,COLOR=GREEN,STYLE=ITALIC,$
TYPE=GRANDTOTAL,COLUMN=DCOST,COLOR=PINK,STYLE=-ITALIC,FONT=COURIER,$
TYPE=GRANDTOTAL,COLUMN=RCOST,COLOR=RED,STYLE=BOLD,
WHEN=RCOST GT 150000,$
ENDSTYLE
END
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The Stylesheet Facility – Features and Techniques
Styling ROW-TOTAL TITLE when using ACROSS
TABLE FILE CAR
SUM DEALER_COST AS 'DC‘ RETAIL_COST AS 'RC'
BY CAR
ACROSS SEATS
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM OFF
ON TABLE ROW-TOTAL AS 'RTOTAL'
ON TABLE COLUMN-TOTAL AS 'CTOTAL'
ON TABLE SET ONLINE-FMT HTML
ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=REPORT,
GRID=OFF,
FONT='ARIAL',
SIZE=9,
COLOR='BLACK',
BACKCOLOR='NONE',
STYLE=NORMAL,
RIGHTGAP=0.125000,
TOPGAP=0.013889,
BOTTOMGAP=0.027778,
$
TYPE=TABHEADING,
SIZE=12,
STYLE=BOLD,
$
TYPE=HEADING,
SIZE=12,
STYLE=BOLD,
$
TYPE=SUBHEAD,
SIZE=10,
STYLE=BOLD,
$
TYPE=SUBTOTAL,
BACKCOLOR=RGB(210 210 210),
$
TYPE=ACROSSVALUE,
COLUMN=ROWTOTAL,
COLOR='RED',
BACKCOLOR=RGB(210 210 210),
TOPGAP=0.013889,
BOTTOMGAP=0.027778,
$
TYPE=GRANDTOTAL,
BACKCOLOR=RGB(210 210 210),
STYLE=BOLD,
$
ENDSTYLE
END
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The Stylesheet Facility – Features and Techniques
Vertical Line Between Columns
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT COUNTRY CAR MODEL
WHERE COUNTRY EQ 'JAPAN' OR 'FRANCE'
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=DATA, COLUMN=N1, BORDER-LEFT=OFF,$
TYPE=DATA, COLUMN=N2, BORDER-LEFT=ON,$
TYPE=DATA, COLUMN=N3, BORDER-LEFT=ON,$
ENDSTYLE
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
END
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The Stylesheet Facility – Features and Techniques
IMAGE and TEXT on Same Line in HEADING for PDF
TABLE FILE CAR
HEADING
"<+0> <+20> Car Report </2"
SUM RCOST DCOST BY COUNTRY
ON TABLE SET ONLINE-FMT PDF
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=HEADING,
IMAGE=C:\ibi\WebFOCUS71\ibi_html\ib_logo.gif,
SIZE=(.8 .3),$
TYPE=HEADING,LINE=1,ITEM=2,OBJECT=TEXT,
JUSTIFY=RIGHT,$
ENDSTYLE
END
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The Stylesheet Facility – Features and Techniques
Vertical Text Technique – Using PDF
DEFINE FILE CAR
HCNTR/I2 WITH CAR=IF HCNTR LT 5 THEN HCNTR + 1 ELSE 1;
VCNTR/I2 WITH CAR=IF HCNTR EQ 1 THEN VCNTR + 1 ELSE VCNTR;
BLANK/A1 WITH CAR=' ';
END
TABLE FILE CAR
SUM BLANK AS ''
COUNTRY AS ''
MODEL AS ''
CAR AS ''
BY VCNTR NOPRINT
ACROSS HCNTR NOPRINT
ON TABLE NOTOTAL
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM OFF
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
UNITS=IN,PAGESIZE='LETTER',
LEFTMARGIN=0.250000,RIGHTMARGIN=0.250000,
TOPMARGIN=0.250000,BOTTOMMARGIN=0.250000,SQUEEZE=ON,
ORIENTATION=PORTRAIT,$
TYPE=REPORT,FONT='TIMES NEW ROMAN',SIZE=10,COLOR='BLACK',
BACKCOLOR=NONE, STYLE=NORMAL,$
TYPE=DATA,ACROSSCOLUMN=N2, SIZE=9,$
TYPE=TITLE,ACROSSCOLUMN=N2,SIZE=9,$
TYPE=REPORT,ACROSSCOLUMN=N2, WRAP=0.015000,$
TYPE=DATA,ACROSSCOLUMN=N3, SIZE=9,$
TYPE=TITLE,ACROSSCOLUMN=N3,SIZE=9,$
TYPE=REPORT,ACROSSCOLUMN=N3, WRAP=0.015000,$
TYPE=DATA,ACROSSCOLUMN=N4, SIZE=9,$
TYPE=TITLE,ACROSSCOLUMN=N4,SIZE=9,$
TYPE=REPORT,ACROSSCOLUMN=N4, WRAP=0.015000,$
TYPE=ACROSSVALUE,JUSTIFY=RIGHT,$
ENDSTYLE
END
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The Stylesheet Facility – Features and Techniques
Vertical Text Technique – Using PDF – Simplified Example
TABLE FILE CAR
SUM RCOST AS '' DCOST AS ''
BY COUNTRY AS ''
ON TABLE NOTOTAL
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM OFF
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
UNITS=IN,PAGESIZE='LETTER',
LEFTMARGIN=0.250000,
RIGHTMARGIN=0.250000,
TOPMARGIN=0.250000,
BOTTOMMARGIN=0.250000,
SQUEEZE=ON,
ORIENTATION=PORTRAIT,$
TYPE=REPORT,FONT='TIMES NEW ROMAN',
SIZE=10,COLOR='BLACK',
BACKCOLOR=NONE,STYLE=NORMAL,$
TYPE=REPORT,COLUMN=COUNTRY,WRAP=0.015000,
STYLE=BOLD,$
ENDSTYLE
What about HTML and EXL2K?
END
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The Stylesheet Facility – Features and Techniques
Vertical Text Technique – Using HTML
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT CAR
BY COUNTRY
BY MODEL
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=REPORT,CSSURL=vtext.css,$
TYPE=TITLE,CLASS=VTEXT,$
TYPE=DATA,CLASS=DCOLOR,$
ENDSTYLE
END
vtext.css:
.DCOLOR {color:red; border:none}
.VTEXT{
writing-mode: tb-rl;
filter: flipV flipH;
font: bold 13px Arial;
}
For EXL2K – Use EXCEL Template Feature
Orientation option in EXCEL
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The Stylesheet Facility – Features and Techniques
Cascading Stylesheets
 A simple language to add styling to HTML documents
 A W3C standard (World Wide Web consortium)
 Separates
 Structural content of a document (HTML) from
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styling instruction (CSS)
CSS consists of one or more rules – Statements
Statement
 Selector – tells the browser which elements to style
 Declaration – tells the browser how to apply them
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The Stylesheet Facility – Features and Techniques
Cascading Stylesheets
Benefits
 Increased formatting options
 Styling elements outside the scope of the WebFOCUS
Stylesheet facility
 Reduced transmission bandwidth
 Create concise HTML output, reducing overhead to the
browser
 Reduced Coding
 Ease of maintenance using a centralized CSS library
 Adherence to standards
 Same look and feel for all Web documents
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The Stylesheet Facility – Features and Techniques
Cascading Stylesheets
Types of Cascading Style Sheets
 Internal
 Styling instructions are stored internally in the <head.> of
the HTML document
 Browser interprets these instructions
 External
 Separate files accessible to the browser
 Inline
 Stored within the tag of an HTML element, or within the
<head> of the document
 Combine both content and style
 Not recommended – but supported
 Used when certain elements should not be overridden
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The Stylesheet Facility – Features and Techniques
Cascading Stylesheets
Using CSS
 Internal
SET HTMLCSS = ON/OFF
ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS = ON/OFF
 External
CSSURL=location/address
TYPE=REPORT,CSSURL=vtext.css,$
$ Located in MRE Other Files
TYPE=REPORT,
CSSURL=\\ssg\ServerPaths\apps\Renee\vtext.css,$
$ Located in Application Directory for Adhoc reporting
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The Stylesheet Facility – Features and Techniques
Labels Technique
PAGEMATRIX=(c r)
Sets the number of columns and rows of labels on a page.
ELEMENT=(w h)
Sets the width and height of each label, expressed in the unit of
measurement on the UNITS attribute.
GUTTER=(h v)
Sets the horizontal and vertical distance between each label, expressed in
the unit of measurement on the UNITS attribute.
MATRIXORDER={VERTICAL | HORIZONTAL}
Sets the order in which the labels are printed.
LABELPROMPT={OFF | ON }
Sets the position of the first label on the mailing label sheet.
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The Stylesheet Facility – Features and Techniques
Labels Technique
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT CAR AS ''
BY CAR NOPRINT
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM NOPAGE
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
UNITS=IN, PAGESIZE=LETTER, LEFTMARGIN=0.25,
TOPMARGIN=0.5,
PAGEMATRIX=(2 5),
ELEMENT=(1.50 .50) GUTTER=(0.188 9), $
ENDSTYLE
END
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The Stylesheet Facility – Features and Techniques
Labels Technique
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT CAR AS ''
BY CAR NOPRINT
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM NOPAGE
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
UNITS=IN, PAGESIZE=LETTER, LEFTMARGIN=0.25,
TOPMARGIN=0.5,
PAGEMATRIX=(3 4),
ELEMENT=(1.50 .50) GUTTER=(0.188 9), $
ENDSTYLE
END
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The Stylesheet Facility – Features and Techniques
Labels Technique
SET ONLINE-FMT = PDF
TABLE FILE EMPLOYEE
BY LAST_NAME NOPRINT
BY FIRST_NAME NOPRINT
ON FIRST_NAME PAGE-BREAK
HEADING
"<FIRST_NAME <LAST_NAME"
"<ADDRESS_LN1"
"<ADDRESS_LN2"
"<ADDRESS_LN3"
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM NOPAGE
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
UNITS=IN,
PAGESIZE=LETTER,
LEFTMARGIN=0.256,
TOPMARGIN=0.5,
PAGEMATRIX=(2 5),
ELEMENT=(4 1),
GUTTER=(0.188 0), $
ENDSTYLE
END
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