Hi Simone, Why this special API call to add it to the pipeline?
I think is should be a regular transformer you can add any number of time wherever you need it: VariableExpander expander = new VariableExpander(); expander.addProperty( "build.base", "/Users/cocoon" ); expander.addProperty( "build.home", "${build.base}/workspace" ); expander.addProperty( "dist.home", "${build.base}/downloads" ); expander.addProperty( "text.property", "Cocoon3 rocks!" ); then creating and run their pipeline adding the VariableExpander: newNonCachingPipeline().setURLGenerator( getClass().getResource( "/variables-expander.xml" ) ) .addTransformer( expander ) .addSerializer() .withEmptyConfiguration() .setup( System.out ) .execute(); That makes it also easier to add configuration to the expander, for example: * use other marker than ${}, in case you may want generate generate a file using that syntax for its own purposes * what to do if there if the property name is undefined: replace it by nothing / leave as is / throw exception Also by not just using a stupid property map, it is much easier to avoid infinite recursions such as setProperty("build.home","${build.home}/workspace"). Cheers, Alfred. -----Original Message----- From: simone.trip...@gmail.com [mailto:simone.trip...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Simone Tripodi Sent: Donnerstag, 15. Dezember 2011 18:02 To: dev@cocoon.apache.org Subject: Re: [C3] new pipeline component: variabelExpander Hi Robby :) On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Robby Pelssers <robby.pelss...@nxp.com> wrote: > Would it be justified to say that it acts as some kind of transformer > (although non-xslt based) in this case which replaces all variable references > with the value from the Map or Properties provided? exactly, it just replaces plain text inside attributes/body elements :P > And I suppose it works on any text, not just XML?! > Not ATM, it works as XmlTransformer :( > Bring it on ;-) > I'll do, thanks! :) best; -Simo http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ http://simonetripodi.livejournal.com/ http://twitter.com/simonetripodi http://www.99soft.org/ The content of this e-mail is intended only for the confidential use of the person addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail immediately. Thank you.