[plt-scheme] Web Server Templates - absolute paths?

From: Eddie Sullivan (eddieSull at hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Nov 26 18:15:01 EST 2008

Thanks for the quick reply, Jay. That did the trick.
-Eddie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jay McCarthy" <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com>
To: "Eddie Sullivan" <eddieSull at hotmail.com>
Cc: <plt-scheme at list.cs.brown.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: [plt-scheme] Web Server Templates - absolute paths?


> Thanks Eddie.
>
> include-template uses the same path requirement as include [1]
>
> The docs say that a simple string is a relative path, but if you use
> (file "path") then it may be absolute using OS-specific conventions
> such as c:// or /. So try:
>
> (include-template (file "c:/path/template.html"))
>
> Jay
>
> 1. 
> http://docs.plt-scheme.org/reference/include.html#(form._((lib._scheme/include..ss)._include))
>
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Eddie Sullivan <eddieSull at hotmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> Thanks Jay McCarthy and all who worked on the templating system for the 
>> PLT
>> Web Server. I've started playing with it, and it seems very cool. I do 
>> have
>> one question: From my experiments, it seems include-template requires a
>> relative file path, and does not except an absolute path. For example, if 
>> I
>> try:
>>
>> (include-template "c:/path/template.html")
>>
>> I see the following error:
>>
>> include-at/relative-to/reader: bad relative pathname string in:
>> "c:/path/template.html"
>>
>> Is there any way to make this work with an absolute path?
>> Thanks.
>> -Eddie Sullivan
>>
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