Excluding Dotfiles

In all ePublisher formats that automatically publish files from the "Files" folder, it is often desired to disable the publishing of "Dotfiles" or files that have a period as the first character. Examples are ".svn" and ".cvs".

This tip provides a simple way for ePublisher formats based on the 9.2.2 release to disable this behavior by simply overriding the file: Formats/Shared/common/files/copy.xsl.

Steps

  1. Copy the file: 
    • <ePublisher Pro Installation Directory>/Formats/Shared/common/files/copy.xsl
      to your project's equivalent at: 
      <Master Project>/Formats/<Format Name>/Shared/common/files/copy.xsl
  2. Change line 87 from: 
    •         <xsl:variable name="VarIgnore" select="wwfilesystem:CopyFile($VarSourcePath, $VarDestinationPath)" />
      to: 
              <!-- Override to not copy files with \. in their filename -->
        <xsl:if test="contains($VarSourcePath, '\.') = false()">
        <xsl:variable name="VarIgnore" select="wwfilesystem:CopyFile($VarSourcePath, $VarDestinationPath)" />
        </xsl:if>

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  3. Close and re-open project. Re-deploy stationery and regenerate projects.