Re: Help publishing a website

Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> Dan Sharp wrote:
> 
<snip>
> 
> OK, this is the reason: The files in "ftplugin" are first used in a
> dependency without a directory name, thus as "index.html".  Aap does
> remember that the file is in the "ftplugin" directory, thus it's a
> separate node from "index.html" in the top directory.  But the short
> name is the one that's used for "%file%" in the publish attribute.
> Since it was first used without the directory name, "%file%" is replaced
> with "index.html" instead of "ftplugin/index.html".

That makes sense.  I assumed %file% was simply replaced with the text 
passed to the :attr command.  It sounds like the text passed to :attr is 
actually kind of a pointer to a node, and the short name from that node 
is what is actually used to expand %file%?

> How to solve this problem?  You apparently expected the name as it was
> used for ":attr" to be used for "%file%".

Correct

> Currently "%file%" isn't
> expanded until the publish action is done.  Perhaps it should be done
> when executing the ":attr" command?

Or at least using the values passed to the :attr command.  Maybe that is 
the same as what you said.

> The result is that it would make a difference between:
> 
> 	subdir/main.aap:
> 		:attr {publish = $PUB/%file%} index.html
> 
> 	main.aap:
> 		:attr {publish = $PUB/%file%} subdir/index.html
> 
> Even though "index.html" is the same file here and the value of the
> attribute is the same, you do expect different results, right?

Not quite sure I follow, exactly.  Does subdir/main.aap and main.aap 
indicate separate files here?  If so, then I would assume $PUB in 
subdir/main.aap would include 'subdir' and so both index.html files 
would end up in the same place.  If subdir/main.aap and main.aap are 
targets in a single recipe, then I would expect index.html and 
subdir/index.html to be two different files (subdir/main.aap affects 
index.html in the current directory, and main.aap in the current 
directory affects subdir/index.html).  I guess I expect the paths given 
to the :attr command to be relative to the current directory of the 
script being executed.  Was that at all clear?

Dan Sharp



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