Re: org-publish-validate-link

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com>
Cc: org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: org-publish-validate-link
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:30:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C2B7116F-97EF-42E4-9C40-78D41F6002D5@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25DCDCA8-F58D-4605-8654-4BF4D0E2A8FD@tsdye.com>

On Feb 23, 2010, at 5:46 PM, Thomas S. Dye wrote:

>
> 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.

Yes.

The validation function can be supplied by a user - maybe you can come  
up with something that works correctly for your setup and can predict  
the existence of that file, ahead of time.

- Carsten

- Carsten

>
> 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.
>>>>> Phone: (808) 529-0866 Fax: (808) 529-0884
>>>>> http://www.tsdye.com
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> - Carsten
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>> - Carsten
>>
>>
>>
>

- Carsten