[WM] Recursive reading of content files

[Duncan Cameron]

On 2002-12-30 Warren Post wrote:
>I have content files, one per output page, in a directory structure that
>mimics the directory structure of my site, like:
>
>/
>    root1.txt
>    root2.txt
>    /albert/
>      albert1.txt
>      albert2.txt
>      /bill/
>        bill1.txt
>        bill2.txt
>    /abigail/
>      abigail1.txt
>      abigail2.txt
>
>....and so on. I want WebMake to read each file and create the
>corresponding output files. From one of jmason's examples I have the
>following in my .wmk file:
>
><contents src="." name=".../*.txt" />
><content name=all_files>
><{perl
>    # this script from webmake.taint.org
>    # create a ${all_files} variable containing the list
>    # of all the text files we just loaded.
>    $_ = "";
>    foreach my $pg (content_matching ("*.txt")) {
>      $pg =~ s/.txt//; $_ .= "$pg ";
>    }
>    $_;
>}>
></content>
>
><content name=out_helper>
>    <{set page_text="${${WebMake.OutName}.txt}" }>
>    ${page_template}
></content>
>
><for name="out" values="${all_files}">
>    <out file="${out}.html" name="${out}">
>      ${out_helper}
>    </out>
></for>
>
>....which reads and processes all content files in the root directory
>(root1 and root2 in the example above) but does not recursively read the
>files in subdirectories. What am I missing to recursively read the files 
>in the subdirectories?
>
Just use the listname attribute on the contents tag, which you can
then use in a for tag:

<contents src="raw" name=".../*.htm" skip="menu.htm"
    listname="htmfiles"/>

<for name="page" values="${htmfiles}">

Not sure what is wrong with your example though.
There is a subroutine glob_to_re() in Util.pm that tries to convert
the '*.txt' into a regular expression and it doesn't seem to give
what you want. Maybe there's a bug in there?


Regards,
Duncan Cameron