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Subject: Re: plugin seed - proplems to get started with the output.xmap
From: Thorsten Scherler <thorsten@apache.org>
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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 01:41:18 +0100
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Cheers for writing this docu ;-).

BTW I fixed my problem (getting red): I used 0.6 for testing. ;-)

Sorry for just figuring out. 

Thanks for the help.

El vie, 19-11-2004 a las 01:33, Ross Gardler escribi�:
> Thorsten Scherler wrote:
> > El jue, 18-11-2004 a las 13:49, Thorsten Scherler escribi�:
> 
> ...
> 
> > I get for http://localhost:8888/contracts.xml
> > Message: Resource Not Found
> > Description: The requested resource "/contracts.xml" could not be found
> > 
> > What am I doing wrong? 
> > 
> 
> 
> Ah, hang on I don't even need to look at the code for this one. You have 
> defined you plugin as an output plugin. This means it gets mounted in 
> the pipeline late in the processing stage. After the *.xml files have 
> been processed. You can't have an output plugin doing source work as well.
> 
> I was thinking this afternoon that your fbits plugin is not really an 
> output plugin:
> 
> input format --> intermediate format --> output format
>                .                       .
>               /|\                     /|\
>                |                       |
>          input plugin            output plugin
>            (**.xml)          (**.html, **.pdf etc.)
> 
> Your plugin is really an internal plugin, like the IMSManifest plugin.
> These do processing for Forrest itself and handle any special matches, 
> like abs-linkmap. Internal plugins get mounted before any other matchers 
> and therefore can do anything it wants.
> 
> However, be careful with what you use as a match as you can break the 
> whole sitemap. You must only do a <map:generate ...> if you are certain 
> you are going to process the full result.
> 
> To convert from an output to an internal plugin all you need to do is 
> change the type attribute in plugins.xml and change the name of 
> output.xmap to internal.xmap.
> 
> Ross
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thorsten

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