Many folks very likely use make(1) to run wml; and hence use make to
create directories, as in: (abstracted from my makefile; not tested!)
% cat Makefile
#----------
targ = /home/www/release/
src = /home/www/source/
dirs = $(targ) $(addprefix $(targ), Company Products Jobs)
release: $(dirs) $(HTML)
GDEP = Makefile
HTMLS = index.html Products/product.html Company/company.html \
Jobs/jobs.html
HTMLR = $(addprefix $(targ), $(HTML))
WMLOPTS= -q -DROOT~.
WMLSLICE=
$(HTMLR): $(targ)/% : src/% $(GDEP)
(cd src; wml ../$< $(WMLOPTS) $(WMLSLICE) --o ../$@ )
$(dirs) :
-mkdir -m 755 -p $@
#----------
Then you put all your .wml files in the /home/wml/source/ directory
tree, and when you type make, wml goes there and creates the .html
files in the /home/www/release/ tree, making any directories as
needed.
Axel Beckert writes:
> Hi!
>
> One question or feature request:
>
> Is there an easy way to let WML create the directory, in which the
> target HTML file should got to, if that directory doesn't exist? (This
> makes only sense, if you use e.g. <lang:star:slice: /target-path> to
> set the directory where the target file should reside in.) I didn't
> find anything about such a feature in the documentation or faq.
>
> Before we (means my employer) started using WML, we had a self-written
> and not very flexible C++ program to combine templates and content.
> The target directory was given in the header section of the content
> file. If the directory didn't exist, this program created the
> necessary hierachy. Just because all people here are used to have all
> content files in one directory and let them create HTML files in the
> whole web tree, we continued with this policy after we changed to WML.
>
> But with WML I get always error messages like "cannot load
> /home/www/htdocs/About/Addresses/index.de.html for unprotection at
> /usr/local/bin/wml line 720." if some directory does not exist. (In
> that case, /home/www/htdocs/About/ had no subdirectories...)
>
> Were I just blind? If not, I would appreciate, if such a (IMHO very
> useful) feature could be offered in future releases of WML.
>
> Because of this automagical directory creation usually is done
> silently, there should be a switch, which enables or disables this
> feature. And of course, the default should be not to create any
> directories.
>
> (For a long time, we had two directories called organisations and
> organizations and thought that there were just one. Reason was a typo
> in one of the content files.)
>
> Regards, Axel
> --
> Axel Beckert - abe@cs.uni-sb.de - http://abe.home.pages.de/
> Student of Computer Science, University of Saarland (Germany)
> Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (AI Lab), Prof. Dr. W. Wahlster;
> WWW-Administrator IBFI Schloss Dagstuhl; Students Representative
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