Re: Thoughts on cx:zip

2009/5/26 Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>:

>
> The idea is that the manifest says what to do. The step takes the
> documents identified by the @href's in the manifest and puts them in
> the zip file with the names specified by the @name's.

-1, but only if you are considering the idea of XSLT style variables?
Using indirection via a manifest I lose the ability to list out the
files using variables which the implementation has resolved?
How to get dir/dir/*.xml ?

I'm thinking of ant's fileset? Is that too much?



>
> If one of the source documents has the same base URI as one of the
> @href's, then that document gets serialized and stored in the zip.
> Otherwise, the specified @href gets read and stored.
>
> For 'create', the zip file is replaced by the new contents.
>
> For 'update' and 'freshen', entries in the zip file not mentioned in
> the manifest are left unchanged.

update != refresh? Sounds the same?


>
> For 'freshen', the entry in the zip file is replaced only if the entry
> in the manifest is newer (or if the entry will come from the source
> port, which is always assumed to be newer).

sounds the same as update




regards


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Received on Tuesday, 26 May 2009 13:56:14 UTC