Re: org-publish-validate-link

From: "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: org-publish-validate-link
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:46:03 -1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <25DCDCA8-F58D-4605-8654-4BF4D0E2A8FD@tsdye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5F363AC9-FB3D-4E59-BF73-E960132B0CC6@gmail.com>

On Feb 22, 2010, at 8:38 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote:

>
> On Feb 21, 2010, at 2:53 PM, Thomas S. Dye wrote:
>
>> Hi Carsten,
>>
>> Thanks for this.
>>
>> I add a new file that is the target for the link.  It is copied to  
>> its correct publication place.  The exported html file contains a  
>> new description of the file link, but with no active link.
>>
>> I force publishing using C-u prefix and the link is still not active.
>>
>> I shut down emacs, re-start, force publishing, and the link is now  
>> active.
>
> Hmm, strange that restarting Emacs was required.....
>
> Ah, I see now.  Please pull again.  From now on, when forcing  
> publishing with a prefix argument, the validation list will also be  
> recreated.
>
> - Carsten
>

Thanks Carsten,

This eliminates the need for a restart.  It is still the case that the  
link is invalid on the first publication try.  It is valid after force  
publishing, though.

All the best,
Tom

>>
>> All the best,
>> Tom
>>
>> On Feb 20, 2010, at 9:34 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>>
>>> Hi THomas,
>>>
>>> org-publish-validate-link validate links to files that show up in  
>>> the list
>>> `org-publish-files-alist'.  THis list contains all file names that  
>>> are considered part of a project and should be published.  It is  
>>> updated each time you issue
>>> a command to publish a project.
>>>
>>> Are you sure that you are republishing the document that should  
>>> contain the link?  If that document has not changed, it will not  
>>> republish it, so the ink will also not be fixed.
>>>
>>> You can force republishing by calling your publish command with a  
>>> C-u prefix.  Have you tried that?
>>>
>>> - Carsten
>>>
>>> On Feb 17, 2010, at 9:50 PM, Thomas S. Dye wrote:
>>>
>>>> Aloha all,
>>>>
>>>> org-publish-validate-link rejects a valid link to a file when the  
>>>> file is created during an editing session.
>>>>
>>>> With ./test.org and ./support/test.pdf present at the start of a  
>>>> session, the first link in test.org (below) is validated.  When ./ 
>>>> support/test-copy.pdf is added during the session, the second  
>>>> link is not validated and only the description of the link is  
>>>> output to test.html.
>>>>
>>>> ----- test.org
>>>> * A test
>>>> - link to [[file:support/test.pdf][test.pdf]]
>>>> - link to [[file:support/test-copy.pdf][test-copy.pdf]]
>>>> -----
>>>>
>>>> If org-publish-validate-link is not used, then the link is placed  
>>>> correctly in the html output.
>>>>
>>>> I have read the org-mode manual, briefly searched the list  
>>>> archive, and read the function's documentation string, but didn't  
>>>> find anything that might alert me to this behavior.
>>>>
>>>> My expectation was that org-publish-validate-link would  
>>>> understand the org-mode publishing process and would validate  
>>>> links in the production environment that were correctly  
>>>> established in the publication location.
>>>>
>>>> I'm using Org-mode version 6.34trans (release_6.34c.89.g0c39) on  
>>>> emacs 23.
>>>>
>>>> All the best,
>>>> Tom
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thomas S. Dye, Ph.D.
>>>> T. S. Dye & Colleagues, Archaeologists, Inc.
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>>>>
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>>>
>>> - Carsten
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
> - Carsten
>
>
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