Jeremy Quinn wrote: > > > 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. > > Thanks for the offer to do this, but it will not actually help us in > this situation. Except for the suffix bit. > > Most of our 'path stubs' contain '/'. > > We would need a 'base' url to start from (ie. to strip from the > beginning of the urls that get written into the document). > > What about one string param and two booleans: > > suffix: TRUE|FALSE - use suffix, yes or no > filename: TRUE|FALSE - use only the file name, not any of the path, > yes or no > base: STRING - XML document/server root to be stripped from paths
I understand what you need but what you suggest is not generic enough to be implemented in file-name-field(). So forget about the suffix and filename parameters. My idea was simple and generic but not powerful enough.
