[oXygen-user] no luck with xproc scenario

George Cristian Bina
Wed Nov 4 14:20:49 CST 2009


Dear Christian,

Thanks! We fixed this issue today and it will be available in 11.1. 
Version 11.1 is planned for December but we probably will make a beta 
available a few weeks before the release.

Best Regards,
George
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George Cristian Bina
<oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
http://www.oxygenxml.com

Christian Wittern wrote:
> 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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