On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Alexandre Loywick <a.loywick@gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you for your fast answer Peter,
The thing is I have some constraints about this developpement and creating multiple tools for similar processes is a bit annoying so...
I'm not really aware of macros in the xml, I'll go read the wiki again about that.
bests, Alexandre
In addition to the wiki documentation, for a complex set of examples Bjoern and John have used the macros to remove a LOT of duplication in the BLAST+ XML files, https://github.com/peterjc/galaxy_blast/tree/master/tools/ncbi_blast_plus The repeated snippets are defined here: https://github.com/peterjc/galaxy_blast/blob/master/tools/ncbi_blast_plus/nc... Note there are two kinds, XML and tokens - the tokens are new and not yet on the wiki. They can be used inside the Cheetah syntax for the <command> tag and also the RST markup for the <help> tag. In a simple case (and the older BLAST+ versions) we'd just reference the macros file from the individual tools with: <macros> <import>ncbi_macros.xml</import> </macros> You insert the XML macros with lines like this: <expand macro="input_conditional_choose_db_type" /> This is fairly easy (although it can be harder to debug). Peter