David Crossley wrote: > Patrick Ohly wrote: > > > > so many responsens - thanks a lot. I should have asked much earlier ;-) > > Yes, and as you can see, other people learn something from > the discussion too. > > > David Crossley wrote: > > > Patrick Ohly wrote: > > > > > > > > In the mailing list archives I found the hint to add a href without > > > > description, but the URL would still be in the source of the generated > > > > HTML, it's just not visible. It doesn't validate either with forrest > > > > 0.8. > > > > > > > > Any other suggestions? > > > > > > I might be seeing the hint that you refer to at > > > http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-480 > > > Are you sure that that causes validation errors > > > in document-v20 xdoc? > > > > No, it works as intended - I wasn't paying enough attention to the > > error, it referred to something else. > > > > > See http://forrest.apache.org/faq.html#cli-xconf > > > It hints at the solution, but only shows how to > > > exclude files. > > > > > > This directs Apache Cocoon to add extra URIs for > > > processing. See > > > http://forrest.apache.org/docs/dev/howto/howto-asf-mirror.html#link > > > > > > However see the link to issue FOR-480 below that. > > > I see that we have not updated the howto doc > > > to show the proper workaround. > > > > I have done that and the additional URIs are mentioned in the list of > > files that forrest works on. What I have problems with is figuring out > > to what the path in the "dest" attribute (FOR-300) is relative to: > > absolute paths worked, relative ones don't (no error message, no file). > > > > > Look in site-author/conf/cli.xconf search for "mirrors". > > > > It uses dest="../../site-author/build/site". That might be relative to > > site-author/conf/, but going up the corresponding number of levels > > relative to my cli.xconf didn't work. Any suggestions? > > It is probably relative to $FORREST_HOME/main/webapp/ > > Try omitting the "dest" attribute, then search your > filesystem to find where the file was generated to, > then add the "dest" attribute again. > > Oh, i wonder if you completely followed the FAQ > http://forrest.apache.org/faq.html#cli-xconf > to declare your cli.xconf properly in forrest.properties
Erk. Of course you did, as you said above that it worked with a full pathname for the "dest" attribute. -David