Deep Copy of the images from the text area of the attached file.

I have a DCT, inside that there is a attribute to Browse the xml file from another branch.

Below is the content of the browsed xml file in my DCT. Now , my requirement is to search the < img src=”/dev-media-assets/image/img_hero_medium.png"/> from the attached xml to dcr and manipulate the complete path of the image and create a file list of the images.

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<content-set> <content key="body">

<![CDATA[<div class="mmpromo"><a href="http://www.investools.com/content/sharedContent/?v=EducationTDA"><img src="/dev-media-assets/image/img_hero_medium.png"/></a><div class="mmpromo_header">Header test</div><div class="mmpromo_content">vide text goes here</div><a class="mmpromo_link" href="http://www.investools.com/content/sharedContent/?v=EducationTDA">Tour video</a></div> ]]>

</content> </content-set>

Any help/pointer on how to read the img attribute from the xml (flat)file.

I checked the TeamSite: Smiley Very Happy CRparser library but not able to move further since attached file is not in proper xml format(node).

Thanks,

Ajay

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nipper

Give some details of what you want to parse with. If you have regex, that would be an easy way to do it.

What server type ? TS level ? If you are talking DCR parser, then Perl will have regex.

Adam Stoller

Can you provide a bit more context in terms of where / when you are trying to do this processing?

Are you trying to do this within the context of the DCR itself or as part of a workflow process or something else?

You might be able to use TeamSite: Smiley Very Happy CRnode or TeamSite::XMLnode - which have methods like get_xml($accessor) and/or get_inner_xml($accessor) that may provide you a better means for doing what you want; although if you're using Perl you could probably do a regex like:

my $value = $node->value();
my @srcs = split(/src\s*=\s*/, $value);
foreach my $src (@srcs) {
  next if ($src !~ /^[\"\']/);
  $src=~ s|^.([^\"\']+)[\'\"].*$|$1|;
  # do what you want from here
}

(above is untested and could probably be written better, but as I'm not working on the actual code...)

Tyagi

Thanks Goti!

Well, I am generating the xml using the xslt and deploying to the webserver using my workflow. The generated xml have the path of attached xml(attached in the DCR using the browse) and inside that xml there are some images. As of now, business deploy those images separately from other branch. But now, business want to deploy those images along with the workflow.

So i was thinking of some script using the callServer and generate the filelist of all the images. Once, i have filelist of all the images then i can modify my workflow to deploy those images.

Tyagi

Hi Andy!

Thanks for the reply.

I am on TS721 on win. I have updated more detail about this in the thread.

nipper

Choices are limited.

You can do this in XSL, with a regex, though that is not really easy. And reuse later is tough

Extracting it out when the field changes or when you save the DCR is the other option. You can put it into a hidden or readonly field.

YOu do not need to do a call server, you can take the regex Ghoti gave and do that in JavaScript. Probably the easiest approacj

Adam Stoller

Tyagi wrote:
Thanks Goti!
[...context of what / why you are trying to do...] As of now, business deploy those images separately from other branch. But now, business want to deploy those images along with the workflow.
So i was thinking of some script using the callServer and generate the filelist of all the images. Once, i have filelist of all the images then i can modify my workflow to deploy those images.

Is my "name" that difficult to spell correctly? If you're trying to get help, don't you think it's worth making a bit more effort in such aspects?

Okay - so now I have a sense of what you are trying to do, and I see a few options:

You could extract the relative path information for the images from the embeded DCR and somehow use knowledge of the path to the embedded DCR to then copy those image files into the branch of the DCR that you are actively processing so that the images would then be relative to it as well - and then make sure that the DCR and its associated images are all versioned and deployed together from the "current" branch. However, that would involve duplication of assets that you may not want to do.
You could extract the relative path information for the images from the embeded DCR and use knowledge of the path of area-vpath of those images to have initiate a seconday workflow to deploy those images from their source location to the desired target location along with the new DCR (or generated page) from its source location.
A variant of the above where you do the entire thing within one workflow with parallel task threads.

The complications come from the fact that

the images are stored in a different branch than the DCR (and/or page generated from DCR)
workflow tasks can only function for a single areavpath
and files attached to workflow tasks can only come from a single areavpath

The last two items can be dealt with programmatically by either launching a separate workflow for the images (that uses the image's areavpath as the base path) or by having concurrent task threads in the workflow in which one of the threads has a distinct areavpath and a distinct set of associated files from the other thread. While do-able, launching a separate workflow with the specific areavpath and files is usually significantly easier.

Another approach - and one that I think would be easier to implement - is to handle all images correctly to begin with - so that they get deployed to the proper location(s) when they are created / approved - and that all DCRs (in whatever branch) only access images that have been deployed (versioned, in TeamSite's staging area), such that you don't have to worry about re-deploying the images when you deploy the content.

Browsing for images in different branches and rendering them correctly within in-context preview then become the issues to be dealt with. Browsing for images in different branches has been discussed in numerous threads that can hopefully be found by using the Search mechanism in these fourms. Rendering them for in-context preview is something that you would deal with via iwproxy configuration settings in your iw.cfg file - which is discussed in one or more of the product manuals - like the TeamSite Administration Guide, etc.

Tyagi

Thanks Ghoti!

I apologies for the typo in your name.

This will really help. I appreciate your time and help.