Jeremy Quinn wrote: > > I have been reading the dox for powerusers for the new XXE 2.3. > Some very nice additions! > > I would like to request a new feature which would help us enormously > (or happily accept suggestions for a workaround ....). > > Would it be possible to get a way of stripping a specific prefix and/or > suffix (ideally setup in the config file) from the Paths returned by > the 'file-name-field' widget? > > Our XML documents contain application-specific path-stubs to other > resources, in attributes and elements: > > <image src="archive/project/asset.jpg"/> > which has the following absolute paths: > file:///Library/Apache2/htdocs/assets/archive/project/asset.jpg > http://www.server.org/assets/archive/project/asset.jpg > > <href>season/soft/about</href> > which has the following absolute paths: > file:///Users/Shared/Site/Content/season/soft/about.xml > http://www.server.org/[command/]season/soft/about > > <component src="archive/projects-menu"/> > which has the following absolute paths: > file:///Users/Shared/Site/Components/archive/projects-menu.xml > cocoon:/components/archive/projects-menu (internal url for > aggregation) > > We use these partial paths because we serve our XML via Apache Cocoon > (which excels at abstracting URLs from resources), using XSLT to > manipulate these paths according to the WebApp's requirements. (We call > this Application root addressed). > > (I imagine those writing Static XHTML, who use aliases to serve images, > would also face the same kind of issue.) > > Currently, in the case of the <image src="blah"/> we use the attribute > pane's file browser to locate the relevant image, hand-edit the > spurious absolute path prefix and have it displayed with the following > CSS: > > image { > content: concatenate("image('http://dev.local/assets/";, > attr(src), > "', attr(width), attr(height))"); > } > > This all works very well, except for the error-prone hand editing.
OK, I'll add 2 new boolean parameters to the file-name-field: basename (default no) and extension (default yes). basename=yes means that you just want the basename of the file (ex. logo.jpeg) rather than its absolute or relative path. extension=no means that you want to strip the extension (ex. .jpeg) from the absolute or relative path or basename returned by the file chooser.
