empty attribute after cmdline reassignment

[Suraj Kurapati]

Hello,

I am trying to reassign the iconsdir attribute on the command-line
so that it becomes an absolute path (to allow base64 embedding of
icon images into the resulting HTML output). But it doesn't work:

# asciidoc --version
asciidoc 8.6.5

# echo -e '{asciidoc-confdir}\n{iconsdir}' > /tmp/foo.txt

# asciidoc /tmp/foo.txt
# grep etc /tmp/foo.html
<div class="paragraph"><p>/etc/asciidoc
# grep images /tmp/foo.html
./images/icons</p></div>

# asciidoc -a 'iconsdir={asciidoc-confdir}/{iconsdir}' /tmp/foo.txt
# grep etc /tmp/foo.html
<div class="paragraph"><p>/etc/asciidoc</p></div>
# grep images /tmp/foo.html
exit 1

Am I misunderstanding the order of attribute evaluation?

Thanks for your consideration.

[Lex Trotman]

On 29 June 2011 17:28, Suraj Kurapati <sun...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to reassign the iconsdir attribute on the command-line
> so that it becomes an absolute path (to allow base64 embedding of
> icon images into the resulting HTML output).  But it doesn't work:
>
> # asciidoc --version
> asciidoc 8.6.5
>
> # echo -e '{asciidoc-confdir}\n{iconsdir}' > /tmp/foo.txt
>
> # asciidoc /tmp/foo.txt
> # grep etc /tmp/foo.html
> <div class="paragraph"><p>/etc/asciidoc
> # grep images /tmp/foo.html
> ./images/icons</p></div>
>

> # asciidoc -a 'iconsdir=asciidoc -a 'iconsdir={asciidoc-confdir}/{iconsdir}' /tmp/foo.txt' /tmp/foo.txt

> # grep etc /tmp/foo.html
> <div class="paragraph"><p>/etc/asciidoc</p></div>
> # grep images /tmp/foo.html
> exit 1
>
> Am I misunderstanding the order of attribute evaluation?

No, I think you are misunderstanding that attributes are not
substituted in command line attribute definitions and attributes are
not recursively substituted. So when iconsdir is substituted the
literal text '{asciidoc-confdir}/{iconsdir}' is substituted which
shows up as unsubstituted attributes which gets the line dropped.

You are just going to have to type the path.

Cheers
Lex

[Suraj Kurapati]

On Jun 29, 2:43 am, Lex Trotman wrote:

> On 29 June 2011 17:28, Suraj Kurapati wrote:
> > I am trying to reassign the iconsdir attribute on the
> > command-line so that it becomes an absolute path
>

> attributes are not substituted in command line attribute
> definitions and attributes are not recursively substituted.  So
> when iconsdir is substituted the literal text
> '{asciidoc-confdir}/{iconsdir}' is substituted which shows up as
> unsubstituted attributes which gets the line dropped.

That makes sense. Thanks for explaining.

> You are just going to have to type the path.

Actually, I found a workaround: moving the attribute value
reassignment into the AsciiDoc document itself makes it work.

# cat /tmp/foo.txt
:iconsdir: {asciidoc-confdir}/{iconsdir}

{asciidoc-confdir}

{iconsdir}

# asciidoc /tmp/foo.txt
# grep etc /tmp/foo.html

<div class="paragraph"><p>/etc/asciidoc</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>/etc/asciidoc/./images/icons</p></div>
# grep images /tmp/foo.html
<div class="paragraph"><p>/etc/asciidoc/./images/icons</p></div>