changing the format of results based on client information

[opher.lichter]

Is it possible to send information to the Thunderstone search appliance that would tell it to reformat all result URLs to SMB://server/share/filename.ext instead of file://server/share/filename.ext.

This format would work better on the Macintosh platform and if we could send along the client information (pc vs mac), could we re-format the result URLs to cater to the client?

[mark]

Possibly you could translate the urls when using the XSL style sheet. But I don't know how. I don't think any client info is available to the XSL processor. You could include some javascript in the links to do the translation on the fly in the browser.

[mark]

Here are XSL mods you can make for macintosh compatible file: urls (or other url translation on output).

Add HTTP_USER_AGENT to the XML Export Vars setting under search settings.

In the XSL style sheet after
<xsl:preserve-space elements="Abstract" />
Add
<xsl:variable name="HTTP_USER_AGENT"><xsl:value-of select="/ThunderstoneResults/exportVar/variable[@name='HTTP_USER_AGENT']"/></xsl:variable>

In the XSL style sheet after
<xsl:template match="Result" mode="list">
Add
<xsl:variable name="Url">
<xsl:if test="contains($HTTP_USER_AGENT,'Macintosh')">
<xsl:value-of select="concat('file:///Volumes/',substring-after(Url,'file://THESERVER/'))"/>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="not(contains($HTTP_USER_AGENT,'Macintosh'))">
<xsl:value-of select="Url"/>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:variable>
Adjusting "file://THESERVER/" to the prefix of the url in the database you need to change
and "file:///Volumes/" for what to change the prefix to.

In the XSL style sheet change (prepend $ to Url)
<A><xsl:attribute name="HREF"><xsl:value-of select="Url"/></xsl:attribute>
to
<A><xsl:attribute name="HREF"><xsl:value-of select="$Url"/></xsl:attribute>