Improved mathcing
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Key: FOR-947
URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-947
Project: Forrest
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Forrest2
Reporter: Ross Gardler
Priority: Minor
The implementation of matching in Forrest2, at the time of writing, is
extremely powerful (using RE's), however, RE's are not the easiest thing for
users to understand, unless it is already a part of ther skill set.
A proposal for Cocoon 3 suggests a number of alternative matching methods (see
[1]):
"4) The match method is specified by the name of the attribute that
provides the match pattern. Four methods would be supported:
• "equals": literal match from first to last position, no magic
metacharacters
• "contains": match w/ leading or trailing characters
• "path": a better name for today's "wildcard", i.e. the "*" and "**"
we love to use!
• "regexp": regular expression match."
If used in Forrest2 this would give us a locationmap that looks something like
this:
<location equals="foo.html">
<source href="classpath:/content/foo.xml"/>
</location>
<location contains="foo">
<source href="classpath:/content/foo.xml"/>
</location>
<location path="**/foo.html">
<source href="classpath:/content/foo.xml"/>
</location>
<location regecp=".*/foo.html">
<source href="classpath:/content/foo.xml"/>
</location>
If we start to implement this we should first see if Cocoon has gone this way
(and share code) or we should discuss with the Cocoon community to ensure our
code would be of use to them if they implement the proposal in the linked RT [1]
[1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&m=116518128306132&w=2
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