RE: XMLC Include Files

Hi Christian,

At 10:47 AM 8/1/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>Hi Jake,
>
>Good question, and I'm not entirely sure of the answer. CopyAndReplace
>extends Ant's Copy task, and then it delegates to Ant's Replace task.
>So...if Replace supports regexp then CopyAndReplace should too, I presume.

Actually, Replace doesn't support regular expression matching.  However, 
the Ant optional task ReplaceRegExp does...
http://ant.apache.org/manual/OptionalTasks/replaceregexp.html

It is optional because it requires an external regular expression library 
to work.  These include j2sdk1.4.x regular expression package, 
Jakarta-RegeExp, and Jakarta-Oro.  Jakarta-Oro is the recommended one since 
it treats line endings in one way across platforms and will work with older 
JDK's.  Maybe we can add an attribute to the CopyAndReplace task or to 
individual token/value entries identifying the replace to use regular 
expressions?  If ReplaceRegExp throws an exception saying that no regex 
package was found, then either fail the task or log a warning and continue 
on to other token/value pairs.  I'd think that logging the warning, rather 
than failing the task, would be the most prudent.

What do you think?

Jake


>Christian
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>Christian Cryder
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected]
> > [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Jacob Kjome
> > Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 9:27 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: RE: [Barracuda] XMLC Include Files
> >
> >
> > Hi Christian,
> >
> > At 12:09 PM 6/23/2003 -0600, you wrote:
> > >Now each of these .shtml files actually corresponds to an actual webapp
> > >screen, so we want to compile these into XMLC objects. We also want to
> > >perform text replacements, however, changing relative links into event
> > >references and stuff like that. So for that we use the CopyAndReplace
> > >functionality - this copies the files from our mockups directory into our
> > >XMLC source directory, resolving .ssi refences and performing text
> > >replacement as well.
> >
> > Sorry to bring this up again over a month later, but does CopyAndReplace
> > support regular expression text replacements like XMLC does (via
> > -urlregexpmapping)?  If not, it seems that it should be added.  If not,
> > then it can't be claimed that CopyAndReplace replaces similar
> > functionality
> > provided directly by XMLC.
> >
> > Jake
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