Recent changes to feature-requests

Improve Error Messages / Reporting

Charles Foster — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 13:42:37 -0000

Whilst developing in anger using XMLSH, it becomes very apparent that when commands cause an error / exception that the message's are being caught and not displayed to the user.

You spend lots of time trying to "guess" what the error actually is.

For instance, one example would be while trying to insert content into MarkLogic via ml:put I get lots of:

Exception submitting data
Exception submitting data
Exception submitting data
...

There is no error message in the MarkLogic ErrorLog.txt or XDBC AccessLog

I am not just talking about ml:put having very none-descriptive error messages, I am talking most commands having none-descriptive error messages when things go wrong, sometimes to the point of something completely meaningless.

I do care about XMLSH ... if I didn't, I wouldn't be spending my time writing this stuff.

Improve external Module Mechanism

Charles Foster — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:16:54 -0000

* Currently, installing a Module (even MakrLogic XCC/J) is not entirely intuitive.

* It would be good if a Module provider could give ONE-SINGLE-PACKAGE and just place it in a directory like ext
** With a view to the commands being "automatically available" to run when running XMLSH.
** Does not need to be as complex as a maven dependency "plug in" just yet ...

I suspect that other people may not have the same level of patience as myself when trying to use XMLSH.

add mktemp command

David Lee — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 12:53:37 -0000

add mktemp command to the POSIX emulation set

Extend java object function calls to chained operations

David Lee — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 02:42:51 -0000

extend the java object function call syntax to support chained operations.
Example this should work:

echo jnew( java.util.Date).getTime()

But it produces a syntax error

Add $RANDOM support

David Lee — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 01:44:00 -0000

Add $RANDOM as a variable as supported by ksh/bash to produce a random number

Add support for ${var:-value)

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:15:46 -0000

sh/ksh/bash allows the ${var:-value} syntax which is eqivilent to 'if var is not set or empty then substitue value else expand var'.

Considering adding support for this syntax in xmlsh.

TODO: Need to evaluate how this affects the tie command.

Add support for /**/ globing

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:13:26 -0000

Bash supports /**/ to mean recurse directories (in addition to /*/ which means recurse 1 level)

Considering adding support for /**/ in globbing (wildcard expansion )

Example:
echo /home/**/index.html

Add xinclude command

David Lee — Fri, 22 May 2009 20:57:11 -0000

Add an xinclude command which runs just the xinclude functionality but nothing more.

Add xslt1 support

David Lee — Fri, 22 May 2009 20:52:18 -0000

Current xlst command uses Saxon9. This is XSLT2.0. This is "generally compatible" with XSLT1.0 stylesheets but there are cases when a XSLT1 processor is desired.
Add an "xslt1" command which uses Saxon6 Jars to run the legacy saxon xslt1.0 compatible transformer.

html2xml Command?

Emmanuel Lazinier — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:17:13 -0000

What about an html2xml command that would invoke, say, TagSoup, or jTidy?