Custom np++ functionlist expressions - regex

Oh, I'm having trouble just understanding what I'm doing here.
I'm creating a custom Notepad++ FunctionList. I know how to add it, and it's parsing, but I can't figure out from the docs how to specify the regex correctly.
In my code file (for a program called Squiffy), it has sections, kind of like an .ini file, so I started by copying the ini file's functionlist code.
I'm looking for sections like this: [[something]]: on it's own line, and for subsections like this: [somesubsection]:.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<NotepadPlus>
<functionList>
<!-- File format used for: .sq -->
<parser displayName="Squiffy" id="Squiffy"
commentExpr=""
>
<function mainExpr=mainExpr="^\[\[.*\]\]\:$" >
<functionName>
<nameExpr expr="^\[\[.*\]\]*"/>
</functionName>
</function>
</parser>
</functionList>
</NotepadPlus>
My problem is that I don't really understand what mainExpr and nameExpr are supposed to find. I know I can find the sections with the regex I have in mainExpr, but I'm not sure what to with the nameXpr field.

Hmmmph. Nobody had anything to say! So I posted on the notepad++ forum, which is where this solution comes from:
<parser
id="Squiffy" displayName="Squiffy" commentExpr=""
>
<function
mainExpr="(?-s)^\[(?:\[([^\[\]\r\n]+)\]|(?1))\]:"
>
<functionName>
<nameExpr expr="[^\[\]\r\n]+" />
</functionName>
</function>
</parser>
And here is a thread describing just notepad++ functionlists are configured.

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Delete comments from xml file while parsing it using libxml

Following is the XML file with one of its node(i.e. <date>) being commented.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<story>
<info>
<author>Abc Xyz</author>
<!--<date>June 2, 2017</date> -->
<keyword>example keyword</keyword>
</info>
</story>
What I want is to remove that commented line/node completely from the XML file using libxml library and it should look as below:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<story>
<info>
<author>Abc Xyz</author>
<keyword>example keyword</keyword>
</info>
</story>
I also referred the libxml documentation but that didn't helped me much with the "comment/s" in XML file.
I tried in a different way and it worked. Looks like using xmlreader for modifying the xml will not help much, instead I did xmlReadMemory(), then while parsing did following check:
if(node->type == XML_COMMENT_NODE){ //node is of type xmlNodePtr
xmlUnlinkNode(node);
xmlFreeNode(node);
}
And finally xmlDocDumpFormatMemory() to store the modified xml in xmlbuffer.
You can use NodeType() while parsing the xml and check for each node if it’s a comment (8 means comment, see here: http://xmlsoft.org/xmlreader.html#Extracting) and then remove it with xmlUnlinkNode() and xmlFreeNode().

How to read a value from property file and replace it on xml using shell script

I have a xml file which contains some path at multiple places.
Now I want to fetch value from a .properties file mentioned and replace part of path where ever it is present in xml.
Like,let's consider I have a xml file as below.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
...
...
<classpath>
<pathelement location="/profiles/sh/finalFolder/Apache/example.jar" />
</classpath>
<property name="executable" value="/profiles/sh/finalFolder/Apache/instjamr/install" />
<fileset dir="/profiles/sh/finalFolder/Apache/ant"/>
this xml file conatins path /profiles/sh/finalFolder with some suffix at many places.
Now, I have a path.properties file which contains (key,value) pairs such as
FinalFolder=/new/final/exit (user can edit value anytime in property file)
I want to replace the path with the value mentioned in .properties file for the key FinalFolder.
so now finally, I need to write a code in .sh file to do the job.
Please help,Thanks in advance.
(please don't mark this question as duplicate as I din't find a approriate/implementable answer for my question)

Modify tomcat server.xml config using sed

I am making an Ubuntu package that depends on Tomcat7 through HTTPS. To make it convenient for our customers, I would like the install script of the package enable HTTPS in Tomcat7. This is pretty easy to do manually; in the file /etc/tomcat7/server.xml, one needs to uncomment the following block:
<!--
<Connector port="8443" protocol="HTTP/1.1" SSLEnabled="true"
maxThreads="150" scheme="https" secure="true"
clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS" />
-->
How could I do this from a shellscript? Preferebly in a way that it still works for slight modifications of the exact pattern. I think the rule would be something along the lines of search for '<Connector port="8443"' and then remove <!-- and --> before and after the block.
Consider apply a patch on your server.xml.
Generating a patch file:
diff -ruN server.xml.old server.xml.new > mydiff.patch
Where server.xml.old is the original file, and server.xml.new is the file as you want.
The patch (mydiff.patch) will look like this:
--- server.xml.old 2011-10-29 04:03:25.000000000 -0300
+++ server.xml.new 2011-10-29 04:04:03.000000000 -0300
## -1,10 +1,10 ##
(...)
- <!--
<Connector port="8443" protocol="HTTP/1.1" SSLEnabled="true"
maxThreads="150" scheme="https" secure="true"
clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS" />
- --->
(...)
Then, just apply the patch:
patch server.xml mydiff.patch
You can run the patch command with the flag -N. Thus, it will skip files that seems already patched.
diff should most probably be the tool of your choice. But if the original config file is changed frequently, diff could not be able to apply your script in future versions.
sed also has the ability to read in more than one line. You may want to look at this example that also deals with modifying an xml document.
This might work:
sed -nr '/^<!--/,/^-->/!{p;b};/^<!--/{h;d};H;/^-->/{x;/<Connector port="8443"/{s/(^<!--\s*\n|\n\s*-->)//g};p}'
This ignores all non-comment lines. Saves the comment lines in hold space then deletes the start/end comment delimiters if the comment contains <Connector port="8443" and then prints the comment/non-comment.

log4cxx config file syntax

I'm just discovering log4cxx logging framework.
It seems there are two different syntaxes for writing config file:
xml manner
key-value manner
Is there a difference or a best practice in this two approaches?
In log4j, Ceki Gulcu (the author) suggests XML configuration over text file, and it takes precedence in default initialization, too (log4j.xml over log4j.txt). You can achieve slightly more with XML configuration than with the text file (I think you cannot manipulate logger additivity and set log4j debug mode with text file configuration).
That said, log4cxx first looks for log4cxx.xml, too, but there are hardly any examples of configuration on the net (and no official documentation, either), so you'll probably need to analyse the DOMConfigurator source code to find out what's possible (referring to log4j examples may prove misleading, as it's not always exactly the same thing).
To conclude, log4cxx popularity in C++ world does not even come close to log4j's in Java. I wonder why (and what the heck IS popular there, except for tons of ad-hoc solutions).
This isn't actually an answer for the question but when you google for:
log4cxx xml config file syntax
this question is the top search result. As it was mentioned by #MaDa it's difficult to find an XML config file example for log4cxx and syntax description. So this is it. Simplest possible, just to log into console and into a log file.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<log4j:configuration xmlns:log4j="http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/">
<!-- Output log messages to the system console. -->
<appender name="ConsoleAppender" class="org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender">
<layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
<param name="ConversionPattern" value="%-5p %c{1} - %m%n" />
</layout>
</appender>
<!-- Also output log messages to the log file. -->
<appender name="FileAppender" class="org.apache.log4j.FileAppender">
<param name="file" value="LogFile.log" />
<param name="append" value="true" />
<layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
<param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d %-5p %C{2} (%F:%L) - %m%n" />
</layout>
</appender>
<root>
<priority value="all" />
<appender-ref ref="ConsoleAppender" />
<appender-ref ref="FileAppender" />
</root>
</log4j:configuration>
And simple usage example:
#include "log4cxx/logger.h"
#include "log4cxx/xml/domconfigurator.h"
using namespace log4cxx;
using namespace log4cxx::xml;
LoggerPtr logger (Logger::getLogger ("TEST"));
int main ()
{
DOMConfigurator::configure ("Log4cxxConfig.xml");
LOG4CXX_INFO (logger, "App started!");
LOG4CXX_ERROR (logger, "Some error!");
return 0;
}

Log4Net "Could not find schema information" messages

I decided to use log4net as a logger for a new webservice project. Everything is working fine, but I get a lot of messages like the one below, for every log4net tag I am using in my web.config:
Could not find schema information for
the element 'log4net'...
Below are the relevant parts of my web.config:
<configSections>
<section name="log4net"
type="log4net.Config.Log4NetConfigurationSectionHandler, log4net" />
</configSections>
<log4net>
<appender name="RollingFileAppender" type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender">
<file value="C:\log.txt" />
<appendToFile value="true" />
<rollingStyle value="Size" />
<maxSizeRollBackups value="10" />
<maximumFileSize value="100KB" />
<staticLogFileName value="true" />
<layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
<conversionPattern value="%date [%thread] %-5level: %message%newline" />
</layout>
</appender>
<logger name="TIMServerLog">
<level value="DEBUG" />
<appender-ref ref="RollingFileAppender" />
</logger>
</log4net>
Solved:
Copy every log4net specific tag to a separate xml-file. Make sure to use .xml as file extension.
Add the following line to AssemblyInfo.cs:
[assembly: log4net.Config.XmlConfigurator(ConfigFile = "xmlFile.xml", Watch = true)]
nemo added:
Just a word of warning to anyone
follow the advice of the answers in
this thread. There is a possible
security risk by having the log4net
configuration in an xml off the root
of the web service, as it will be
accessible to anyone by default. Just
be advised if your configuration
contains sensitive data, you may want
to put it else where.
#wcm: I tried using a separate file. I added the following line to AssemblyInfo.cs
[assembly: log4net.Config.XmlConfigurator(ConfigFile = "log4net.config", Watch = true)]
and put everything dealing with log4net in that file, but I still get the same messages.
You can bind in a schema to the log4net element. There are a few floating around, most do not fully provide for the various options available. I created the following xsd to provide as much verification as possible:
http://csharptest.net/downloads/schema/log4net.xsd
You can bind it into the xml easily by modifying the log4net element:
<log4net
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://csharptest.net/downloads/schema/log4net.xsd"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
I had a different take, and needed the following syntax:
[assembly: log4net.Config.XmlConfigurator(ConfigFile = "log4net.xml", Watch = true)]
which differs from xsl's last post, but made a difference for me. Check out this blog post, it helped me out.
Just a word of warning to anyone follow the advice of the answers in this thread. There is a possible security risk by having the log4net configuration in an xml off the root of the web service, as it will be accessible to anyone by default. Just be advised if your configuration contains sensitive data, you may want to put it else where.
I believe you are seeing the message because Visual Studio doesn't know how to validate the log4net section of the config file. You should be able to fix this by copying the log4net XSD into C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\XML\Schemas (or wherever your Visual Studio is installed). As an added bonus you should now get intellisense support for log4net
In Roger's answer, where he provided a schema, this worked very well for me except where a commenter mentioned
This XSD is complaining about the use of custom appenders. It only allows for an appender from the default set (defined as an enum) instead of simply making this a string field
I modified the original schema which had a xs:simpletype named log4netAppenderTypes and removed the enumerations. I instead restricted it to a basic .NET typing pattern (I say basic because it just supports typename only, or typename, assembly -- however someone can extend it.
Simply replace the log4netAppenderTypes definition with the following in the XSD:
<xs:simpleType name="log4netAppenderTypes">
<xs:restriction base="xs:string">
<xs:pattern value="[A-Za-z_]\w*(\.[A-Za-z_]\w*)+(\s*,\s*[A-Za-z_]\w*(\.[A-Za-z_]\w*)+)?"/>
</xs:restriction>
</xs:simpleType>
I'm passing this back on to the original author if he wants to include it in his official version. Until then you'd have to download and modify the xsd and reference it in a relative manner, for example:
<log4net
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../../../Dependencies/log4net/log4net.xsd">
<!-- ... -->
</log4net>
Actually you don't need to stick to the .xml extension. You can specify any other extension in the ConfigFileExtension attribute:
[assembly: log4net.Config.XmlConfigurator(ConfigFile = "log4net.config", ConfigFileExtension=".config", Watch = true)]
#steve_mtl: Changing the file extensions from .config to .xml solved the problem. Thank you.
#Wheelie: I couldn't try your suggestion, because I needed a solution which works with an unmodified Visual Studio installation.
To sum it up, here is how to solve the problem:
Copy every log4net specific tag to a separate xml-file. Make sure to use .xml as file extension.
Add the following line to AssemblyInfo.cs:
[assembly: log4net.Config.XmlConfigurator(ConfigFile = "xmlFile.xml", Watch = true)]
For VS2008 just add the log4net.xsd file to your project; VS looks in the project folder as well as the installation directory that Wheelie mentioned.
Also, using a .config extension instead of .xml avoids the security issue since IIS doesn't serve *.config files by default.
Have you tried using a separate log4net.config file?
I got a test asp project to build by puting the xsd file in the visual studio schemas folder as described above (for me it is C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\XML\Schemas) and then making my web.config look like this:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!--
Note: As an alternative to hand editing this file you can use the
web admin tool to configure settings for your application. Use
the Website->Asp.Net Configuration option in Visual Studio.
A full list of settings and comments can be found in
machine.config.comments usually located in
\Windows\Microsoft.Net\Framework\v2.x\Config
-->
<configuration>
<configSections>
<section name="log4net"
type="log4net.Config.Log4NetConfigurationSectionHandler, log4net"/>
</configSections>
<appSettings>
</appSettings>
<connectionStrings>
</connectionStrings>
<system.web>
<trace enabled="true" pageOutput="true" />
<!--
Set compilation debug="true" to insert debugging
symbols into the compiled page. Because this
affects performance, set this value to true only
during development.
-->
<compilation debug="true" />
<!--
The <authentication> section enables configuration
of the security authentication mode used by
ASP.NET to identify an incoming user.
-->
<authentication mode="Windows" />
<customErrors mode="Off"/>
<!--
<customErrors mode="Off"/>
The <customErrors> section enables configuration
of what to do if/when an unhandled error occurs
during the execution of a request. Specifically,
it enables developers to configure html error pages
to be displayed in place of a error stack trace.
<customErrors mode="On" defaultRedirect="GenericErrorPage.htm">
<error statusCode="403" redirect="NoAccess.htm" />
<error statusCode="404" redirect="FileNotFound.htm" />
</customErrors>
-->
</system.web>
<log4net xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://csharptest.net/downloads/schema/log4net.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<appender name="LogFileAppender" type="log4net.Appender.FileAppender">
<!-- Please make shure the ..\\Logs directory exists! -->
<param name="File" value="Logs\\Log4Net.log"/>
<!--<param name="AppendToFile" value="true"/>-->
<layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
<param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d [%t] %-5p %c %m%n"/>
</layout>
</appender>
<appender name="SmtpAppender" type="log4net.Appender.SmtpAppender">
<to value="" />
<from value="" />
<subject value="" />
<smtpHost value="" />
<bufferSize value="512" />
<lossy value="true" />
<evaluator type="log4net.Core.LevelEvaluator">
<threshold value="WARN"/>
</evaluator>
<layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
<conversionPattern value="%newline%date [%thread] %-5level %logger [%property] - %message%newline%newline%newline" />
</layout>
</appender>
<logger name="File">
<level value="ALL" />
<appender-ref ref="LogFileAppender" />
</logger>
<logger name="EmailLog">
<level value="ALL" />
<appender-ref ref="SmtpAppender" />
</logger>
</log4net>
</configuration>
Without modifying your Visual Studio installation, and to take into account proper versioning/etc. amongst the rest of your team, add the .xsd file to your solution (as a 'Solution Item'), or if you only want it for a particular project, just embed it there.
I noticed it a bit late, but if you look into the examples log4net furnishes you can see them put all of the configuration data into an app.config, with one difference, the registration of configsection:
<!-- Register a section handler for the log4net section -->
<configSections>
<section name="log4net" type="System.Configuration.IgnoreSectionHandler" />
</configSections>
Could the definition it as type "System.Configuration.IgnoreSectionHandler" be the reason Visual Studio does not show any warning/error messages on the log4net stuff?
I followed Kit's answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/11780781/6139051 and it didn't worked for AppenderType values like "log4net.Appender.TraceAppender, log4net". The log4net.dll assembly has the AssemblyTitle of "log4net", i.e. the assembly name does not have a dot inside, that was why the regex in Kit's answer didn't work. I has to add the question mark after the third parenthetical group in the regexp, and after that it worked flawlessly.
The modified regex looks like the following:
<xs:pattern value="[A-Za-z_]\w*(\.[A-Za-z_]\w*)+(\s*,\s*[A-Za-z_]\w*(\.[A-Za-z_]\w*)?+)?"/>