Re: [Rest2web-develop] How template is chosen in force mode

[Michael F. <fuz...@vo...>]

Eur Ing Chris Green wrote:
> In the section on 'restindex' where it talks about the template entry
> the documentation says:-
>
>     In an 'index.txt' this can specify the template file for the whole
>     directory (and directories below it as well).
>
> ... and in the 'force mode' section it says:-
>
>     When force is on and no template is specified, then the default
>     one (restweb/defaults/template.txt) is used.
>
>     If a template is specified in the restindex of any index page,
>     then that will be used for that directory (and all subdirectories)
>     in the usual way.
>
>     Every directory that has no index.txt will use the default one.
>     (restweb/defaults/index.txt)
>
>
> This doesn't seem to be working as specified.  In my top level
> index.txt file I have:-
>
>     restindex
>         crumb: Home
>         template: /home/chris/www/r2w/info/template.tpl
>         link-title: HomeTitle
>     /restindex
>
> It's using the specified template file for the top level HTML creation
> but for all the sub-directories it's using the default template file
> /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rest2web/defaults/template.txt.
>
> I have some subdirectories which have explicit index.txt files and
> some which don't but *none* of the subdirectories are using the
> template.tpl file specified in the top level index.txt. The only HTML
> that's formatted with the top-level template.tpl is the top level
> directory.
>
>   
Ok. I need to confirm this, but that certainly sounds like a bug.

Thanks

Fuzzyman
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