[publican-list] Adding Common_Content to a brand

[Jeff Fearn]

On 07/13/2012 10:50 AM, Joshua Wulf wrote:
> Thanks for the reply Jeff, and Rudi for the help in IRC. I got it to work!
>
> My observations inline below for anyone else trying this.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jeff Fearn"<jfearn at redhat.com>
>> To: publican-list at redhat.com
>> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 10:10:03 AM
>> Subject: Re: [publican-list] Adding Common_Content to a brand
>>
>> On 07/13/2012 12:22 AM, Joshua Wulf wrote:
>>> Is it possible to add arbitrary Common_Content to a brand?
>>>
>>> I followed the instructions in
>>> http://rlandmann.fedorapeople.org/pug/chap-Users_Guide-Branding.html
>>> and built my brand. I have css overrides working, and can package,
>>> install, and use my brand to build books.
>>>
>>> I'd like to have some additional boiler plate text.
>>>
>>> I tried adding a file to the en-US directory of the brand, where
>>> Legal_Notice.xml and Feedback.xml are. However, it doesn't seem to
>>> package these. Is there any way to add a file to the
>>> Common_Content, or somewhere else, in a custom brand package?
>>
>> This should Just Work(TM). The OpenShift brand in the publican git
>> repo
>> should be a good example of just adding stuff in.
>
> where stuff==$filename.xml&&  isValidXML($filename.xml)
>
> Anything without the .xml extension is ignored, and anything with the .xml extension is validated as xml.
>
> New subdirectories are also ignored.

If anyone has a requirement for a specific kind of content they can open 
a bug and we'll handle it.

> For truly arbitrary content, the images and css directories seem to work well.

Until someone opens a bug about the wrong kind of thing being copied and 
we filter that content too, such as happened with the XML.

Cheers, Jeff.

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