[WM] Strange problems

[Wes Meltzer]

The WMK files are fairly similar. Similar templates, etc., just 
different sourcefiles. They are for different sites, yes, but it's the 
same technique and similar files.

Wes :wm

On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 22:15:55 -0700, Brian Wisti wrote:
> Hi Wes,
> 
> I guess the question would be "how different are the two WMK files?" 
> Are they 
> for the same site, or are you using the same basic technique for 2 
> different 
> sites?  
> 
> Now if you'll excuse me, I have a PHP site that needs to be reworked 
> **back** 
> into a WebMake site :-)
> 
> - Brian Wisti
> http://coolnamehere.com/
> 
> On Monday 25 August 2003 08:49 pm, Wes Meltzer wrote:
>>  Welcome, everyone, I guess, to the new WebMake-Talk mailing list. Since
>>  there are, what, four of us? Something like that.
>> 
>>  I'm having a really, really strange problem. I'm using <contents /> and
>>  a metatable, and code that works perfectly in one index.wmk file does
>>  not work in another (i.e., a page gets built with the desired filename,
>>  but there is no content loaded for it).
>> 
>>  The <contents /> tag was taken verbatim from a working file, and looks
>>  like:
>> 
>>  <contents src="sourcetext" name=".../*.txt" format="text/et"
>>  listname="all_files" namesubst="s/.txt//" />
>> 
>>  Well, OK, I lied: That IS my contents tag. The idea: there's a
>>  sourcetext/ directory, wherein I keep a whole directory structure of
>>  textfiles. There's also a metatable, which is pretty straight-forward
>>  and which I will paste a selection from here:
>> 
>>  <metatable delimiter="|">
>>  .|title|subtitle|section
>>  climb/index|Climb Up: About Me|Blurry|section-3
>>  climb/general|Climb Up: About Me|In Focus|section-3
>>  </metatable>
>> 
>>  Can anyone think of why this setup (well, the metatable is slightly
>>  different) would work perfectly for one WMK file and not for another?
>> 
>>  Thanks a lot!
>> 
>>  Wes :wm
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