wwtdatatool wtml merge

The merge subcommand takes one or more input WTML files and combines their contents into a new file, rewriting any relative URLs to respect the folder structure of the input files.

Usage

wwtdatatool wtml merge {INPUT-WTMLS...} {OUTPUT-WTML}
  • The INPUT-WTMLS argument is the path to one or more input WTML files that may contain relative URLs for some of their data references.

  • The OUTPUT-WTML argument is the path where the merged output WTML file will be written.

Example

In typical usage, you might have several index.wtml or index_rel.wtml files for a group of images that you wish to into a combined collection. If each of your imagesets is located in a sub-folder, you might run a command such as:

wwtdatatool wtml merge \
  image1/index_rel.wtml \
  image2/index_rel.wtml \
  image3/index_rel.wtml \
  index_rel.wtml

Each input WTML file will have its outermost folder entry “unwrapped” and merged into the output. For instance, if image1/index_rel.wtml contains a single imageset named “global”, image2/index_rel.wtml contains a single Place named “highlight”, and image3/index_rel.wtml contains three Places named “site1”, “site2”, and “site3”, the merged index_rel.wtml folder will contain five items: “global”, “highlight”, “site1”, “site2”, and “site3”.

If the input file image1/index_rel.wtml references a relative URL path ./thumb.jpg, in the output file the URL path will be rewritten to have the form image1/thumb.jpg. This URL structure is determined from the layout of the input WTML files on disk, and not on their logical folder structure. For instance, if you have inputs configured to run a command such as this:

wwtdatatool wtml merge folder1/index.wtml folder2/output.wtml

The relative URLs in folder2/output.wtml will be rewritten to start with ../folder1/.

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