Replace Substitution on Maven APT Page

Question

I am working on documentation on the Maven site for some related projects, and I want to create a hyperlink from the site documentation to another site documentation. The wrinkle is that the URL of the destination link depends on the Maven property.

I tried this:

{{{http://example.com/site/project-${some-prop}/some.html}the documentation}} 

but the substitute $ {some-prop} is not replaced, and then the APT processor gets the first "}" confused. Escaping the {and} characters (for example, $\{some-prop\} ) does not help, and the following does not work:

 {{http://example.com/site/project-${some-prop}/some.html}} 

Is there any other way I can accomplish this task? For example, is there a way to define a Doxia macro that could be used to replace the URL that extended the placeholder?

Answer 1

Are you using version 2.0 beta 6 or a later version of the site plugin? In addition, your apt file name ends with the .vm extension (as described in the Creating Content ?