Re: Is there any way to include from outside the template root directory?

Friday, January 28, 2011, 1:52:41 AM, Johann Petrak wrote:

> I am using FreeMarker with FMPP to generate files from the command line
> from XML source files. To do that, I have created a lot of macros that
> simplify accessing the information in that kind of XML files.
>
> This should work with a number of different templates, each in their own
> template dir to generate different kinds of output files. But for all of
> them I would need the same set of macros! So ideally, the macros would
> be *outside* each of the template directories and shared by them -- but
> this seems to be impossible because <#include> always stays inside the
> template directory.
>
> Is there any way, any trick tom make <#include "../../somefile.ftl">
> work when that relative path points outside the template directory? This
> would be great in cases where the user actually knows what he is doing.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated -- this would immensely simplify
> the maintenance of the files that contain all those macros that I
> need to share between the different template directories.

While FreeMarker requires you to remain inside the template root
directory, it doesn't assume that it's a "real" directory. It's just a
primitive virtual file-system. Utilizing that, FMPP has this feature:

  FreeMarker links (external includes)
  http://fmpp.sourceforge.net/settings.html#sect29

which was introduced exactly for what you need.

-- 
Best regards,
 Daniel Dekany


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