[oXygen-user] Feature Request: Variables for Path Components When Building Result Locations in Scenarios

[Eliot Kimber]

The key is that I want to reflect directories that are ancestors of the
file being processed.

For example, say that files can be in project/a/b/c or project/d/e/f and I
want to generate files in project/new/a/b/c or project/new/d/e/f--I don't
see a way to do that without having different scenarios or modifying the
scenario for each different starting directory. It precludes applying the
transform to the common parent of both input directories and having it
just work.

And of course, if I could really have everything I wanted I'd like to be
able to apply a regular expression to the incoming filename and then
reference groups in order to construct the result filename....

Cheers,

E.
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On 2/7/14, 5:49 PM, "Peter West" <lists at pbw.id.au> wrote:

>There is already the variable ${pdu} which is the URL of the project
>directory.  If that were complemented with ${rppd} for relative path
>within project directory, that would do the trick, wouldn't it?
>
>On 8/02/2014 8:05 am, Eliot Kimber wrote:
>....
>
>> I'm thinking that what I'd really like is the ability to get any
>>component
>> of the input file's path so that I can then construct the result path,
>> something like:
>>
>> ../../../newdir/${parent:3}/${parent:2}/${parent:1}/$cfn-newbit.xml
>>
>> Where the tokens are addressed from nearest (parent) to farthest, as for
>> the ancestor:: axis.
>>
>> If I had that I could have single transform scenarios I could apply to
>> large sets of files in different structures and get the required result
>> without having to rejigger the transform scenario for each different
>> output location.
>>
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