[oXygen-user] no luck with xproc scenario

[Christian Wittern]

Dear George,

George Cristian Bina wrote:
> Hi Christian,
>
> There is no support for using variables for the input bindings, sorry 
> about the documentation/feature missmatch. We already fixed this in 
> the current development adding support for editor variables when you 
> specify the input bindings.
> Actually the XProc scenarios support will be improved in oXygen 11.1 
> as we already added support for specifying parameters and options.
I am looking forward to this, since the current way makes XProc more or 
less unusable.  Even if I call a XProc scenario from an XML file, there 
is no way that this scenario could pick up the current XML file as the 
input file.

>
> The ${cfn} stands for current file name and it is computed depending 
> on whatever the current file is. If the selected editor is an XProc 
> file then that will contain that file name. Please note that one of 
> the interesting improvements in version 11 was that any type of 
> scenario can be set for any file so you can set an XProc scenario for 
> an XML file and then if you execute the transformation with that file 
> as the current file then the ${cfn} variable will be expanded to that 
> file filename.
Right, this is what I would expect from the way the other scenarios 
behave.  But I experience the following:

I have a XProc scenario called md-db2xml.xpl.  In the input port, of 
that file, I am setting tthe XML file to JY006.xml.  Now I have that 
file (JY006.xml) open in the editor and configure a XProc scenario for 
this file.  In the output port, I set the file to 
file:///tmp/{$cfn}-tei.xml  (and always forget to press 'commit' before 
pressing 'OK' -- this seems quite counterintuitive and different from 
other dialogs, is this really necessary? ).  The resulting file  I am 
expecting should be JY006-tei.xml in /tmp.  However, I do get 
/tmp/md-db2xml-tei.xml, which is annoying and unexpected.   

So I guess I have to wait for the next release to really start using 
this feature.

All the best,

Christian
>
> Best Regards,
> George


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 Christian Wittern 
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