But the mechanism they use to translate a to b still seems analogous. Even if (IIRC) you don't want to do this at transform time. Maybe it's analogous but not useful.
Geoff > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeremy Quinn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 7:49 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: input modules > > > > On Sunday, March 30, 2003, at 01:32 PM, Geoff Howard wrote: > > > Isn't this what Forrest does? > > If you mean LinkRewriterTransformer, no, this is different. > > In my webapp, the URL is the @xl:label, with the location of the > content in the @xl:href. So my sitemap wants to look up the location > using the label, to generate the content. My 'locations' are entirely > private. > > What I believe LRT does is to allow an author to use a label, which is > translated into the URL of the actual asset at render time. So the > label is private and the location is public. It's the other way around. > > If I misunderstood what you meant about Forrest, please put me right ;) > > regards Jeremy > > > > > > Geoff > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Jeremy Quinn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 12:33 PM > >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Subject: input modules > >> > >> > >> Hi All > >> > >> Is it possible to use a value from a matcher in an input module? > >> (I asked about this a while ago, there was some interest, but I don't > >> remember what was resolved). > >> > >> I need to take a URL coming into a Sitemap, pass it to an input module > >> and use the returned value in the @src of a generator. ie. I am using > >> an XML file to 'translate' URLs. > >> > >> I have a 'linkmap' that maps incoming URL stubs to file locations (and > >> describes the structure of a site). > >> > >> A linkmap looks something like this: > >> > >> <map lang="en"> > >> <ref xl:label="home" xl:href="home.xml" xl:title="blah"> > >> <name>KISS</name> > >> <ref xl:label="work" xl:href="work/home.xml" xl:title="blah"> > >> <name>Work</name> > >> <ref xl:label="schematic" xl:href="work/schematic.xml" > >> xl:title="blah"> > >> <name>Schematic</name> > >> </ref> > >> </ref> > >> <ref xl:label="faq" xl:href="faq/home.xml" xl:title="blah"> > >> <name>FAQ</name> > >> <ref xl:label="faq.strech" xl:href="faq/strech.xml" > >> xl:title="blah"> > >> <name>Dil Add Freeflow</name> > >> </ref> > >> etc. > >> > >> With a pipeline like this: > >> > >> <map:match pattern="*"> > >> <map:generate src="{linkmap:{1}}"> ??????? > >> etc. > >> </map:match> > >> > >> How do you pass the "{1}" into the input module that will look up the > >> URL (using XPath) in the LinkMap? > >> > >> Thanks for any help > >> > >> regards Jeremy > >> > >> > >> > > > > >
