Dominique Lind wrote: > For all our uses running windows, the desktop is actually a network > drive. If you try converting a docbook xml file to html for example, > when you browse to the desktop as the save directory in the "browse box" > the path is displayed in the form "\\SERVER\username\.windata\Desktop". > > But then when you click save the directory path is changed to > "/username/.windata/Desktop/" in the "save directory box" within XXE, ie > it strips out the server name. So then when you click ok to do the > conversion, you get this error message: > > Command execution has failed: > Cannot create directory "\\" > > > However it does work properly, as expected, if you manually type in the > server name, ie changing the save directory path to > "//SERVER/username/.windata/Desktop/". > Is there a reason the server name is stripped out?
"\\SERVER\username\.windata\Desktop\" is converted to this URL: "file://SERVER/username/.windata/Desktop/". Unfortunately, the "Choose URL" dialog box does not support the concept of a server for the "file:" protocol. Therefore it simply cannot work. The workaround is of course to map "\\SERVER\username" to a drive. This bug will not be fixed. We intend to completely rewrite the whole Choose URL dialog box in a couple of releases. > I've also had similar problems using the variables %p and %P in macro and > process > commands. Under linux (debian) %p or file://%P works fine, but not > file:///%P. However under windows (2000 professional) only file:///%P > works. This problem is not related to the above one. Please do not use "file:///%P" or "file://%P" on any platform. If it works, it is by pure luck. %P is the *filename* of a directory (i.e. it contains backslashes on Windows). %P is *not* the path part in an URL. Please use %p. Just %p or %p/something. See http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/commands/ch04s01s02.html > I'm currently using the pro edition V2.11, though I'm sure this was a > problem in earlier versions and the std edition as well.
