[Yanel-dev] Introspection does not work with 'virtual' nodes

[Josias Thöny]

Jonathan Addison wrote:
> Hi Devs,
> 
> With the timeline resource as an example, Michi and I realized that the 
> introspection results in a node not found exception when the file 
> location being passed is a virtual node (e.g. exists as a yarep path and 
> has an rc file) but is not actually a real node (e.g. roadmap.xml).  In 
> this case the filepath being passed is called roadmap-events.xml, which 
> is just an XSLT-transformed version of roadmap.xml (the real file).f

Maybe the extra XSLT could remove the introspection link?

> 
> Michi suggested making the introspection configurable within the 
> resource configuration, e.g.
> 
> true for
> 
> http://www.wyona.com/extranet/customers/naz/timeline.html
> 
> and false for
> 
> http://yanel.wyona.org/roadmap-timeline.html
> 
> Or another possibility is how can we pull through the actual source 
> resource.  This last option would obviously be the cleanest but I don't 
> see yet how it could be done easily especially when you consider a 
> possibly multiple-chained series of rc files (e.g. roadmap.xml -> 
> roadmap-events.xml -> roadmap-events-timeline.xml).

Maybe the introspection link could be somehow rewritten to point to the 
introspection file of the original resource. But I'm not sure how this 
could be done.

josias

> 
> If anyone has any thoughts or maybe knows of an existing way to fix this 
> that we've missed please let me know.  Thanks for any help.
> 
> Jonathan
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