On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 12:23:42PM +0100, Stephan Michels wrote:
...
> From Bugzilla:
> > While the transformer I've implemented happens to rewrite links, this
> > transformer could be generalized to transform any part of the incoming
> > XML. For
> > example, we could rewrite any occurrence of ${scheme:address} in the
> > source XML.
>
> This could be very useful. I have the following problem, because of
> the depending of the DirectoryGenerator to java.io.File, I have written
> an equivalent, which used TraversableSource IF, the
> SourceDescriptionGenerator. Then I saw the inherited Generator classes
> like ImageDirectoryGenertor or MP3DirectoryGenerator etc. So my conclusion
> was to find something more universal, which
>
> 1) Get the source
> 2) Retrieve a source depended property, like image height and width
> 3) Make a XML description
>
> As result I got a SourceInspector.
>
> And on the other hand I have Sources, which got common properties, and
> I created a InspectableSource.
>
> Now, to come to the 'Dynamic variables' discussion I want to merge
> these concept with the modules. For the first case, I thought about
> something like this
>
> 1) <map:generator type="directory" src="dir/"/>
> 2) <map:transformer src="getImageProbs.xsl"/>
> 3) <map:transformer type="module"/>
>
> to 1)
> <source name="dir" collection="true">
> <source name="file.xml"/>
> <source name="file.jpg"/>
> </source>
>
> to 2)
> <source name="dir" collection="true">
> <source name="file.xml"/>
> <source name="file.jpg" height="${jpg:height}" width="${jpg:width}"/>
> </source>
>
> to 3)
> <source name="dir" collection="true">
> <source name="file.xml"/>
> <source name="file.jpg" height="400" width="300"/>
> </source>
I don't know if I've fully understood..
Would it be correct to say you're looking for a generic way to augment a
DirectoryGenerator's output with file metadata?
Forrest needs this too, to generate output like:
<source name="dir" collection="true">
<source name="index.xml" dc:title="Index" dc:author="Joe Bloggs"/>
<source name="primer.xml" dc:title="Forrest Primer" dc:author="Steven Noels"/>
<source name="linking.xml" dc:title="Menus and Linking" dc:author="Jeff Turner"/>
...
</source>
Why not have the SourceDescriptionGenerator do:
for (each file in the directory):
if (source instanceof InspectableSource) {
sourceProperty = source.getSourceProperties(),
createNewXMLAttribute(sourceProp.getName(), sourceProp.getValue());
}
Then you'd automatically get attributes for any file metadata that is
made available by the InspectableSource.
> It could work similar with the common properties using the
> InspectableSource.
Yes, there seems a natural tie-in between InspectableSources and
InputModules.
> My problem is that I have always two parameters: the source uri
> and the property name.
How about:
<source name="dir" collection="true">
<source name="file.xml"/>
<source name="file.jpg" height="${jpg:file.jpg#height}"
width="${jpg:file.jpg#width}"/>
</source>
Although, for your specific need, I think the InspectableSource-aware
Generator sounds simpler. Assuming I've understood correctly.
--Jeff
> Any help is appreciated, Stephan Michels.
>
>
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