exportedStr() workaround in AppleScript?

External Scripting of Tinderbox
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I can see there’s a note in the Expressions page in the Cookbook informing exportedStr() is broken for now.

Indeed, this will return an empty string with Tinderbox 8.7.1:

tell application "Tinderbox 8"
	repeat with aNote in front document's selections
		set exportedStr to evaluate aNote with "exportedStr(this, /Templates/PHI HTML note)"
	end repeat
end tell

Is there any workaround to get the formatted $Text in AppleScript (or maybe I’m not using evaluate correctly)?

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That version of Cookbook addresses Tinderbox 7.3.2 – long time ago.

Is this correct?

set exportedStr to evaluate aNote with "exportedStr(this, /Templates/PHI HTML note)"

or should it be

set exportedStr to evaluate aNote with "exportedStr(this, '/Templates/PHI HTML note')"

???

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Hello @PaulWalters. The problem was misreading the documentation :man_facepalming:
The expression is actually exportedString()…

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