Feature Requests item #1764989, was opened at 2007-07-31 15:51
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Category: bootstrapper
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Heath Stewart (heaths)
Assigned to: Rob Mensching (robmen)
Summary: Binder Functions
Initial Comment:
Like pre-processor functions, the binder should also support functions. I can
think of two cases where this would be needed:
1. Common loc scenario of processing localized positional formattable strings.
I.e., "{0} {1}" might be "{1} {0}" in some languages and that string would be
in different WXL files but take unlocalized text such as an identifier or
[Manufacturer].
Along with this, I recommend a standard function of loc.format(id, ...) that
simply calls String.Format().
2. To handle binder attributes we have previous discussed. Instead of devising
some properly formatted variable to get, say, the AssemblyName from file F_1234
like wix.AssemblyName.F_1234 we could use a binder function like
wix.attribute(F_1234, AssemblyName).
This could easily be done by getting rid fo the regex already used for wix
variables (which we know doesn't handle multiple dots, for example) and using
String.Split('.', 2) like the preprocessor, then arra[1] through the same
tokenizer for the preprocessor.
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