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+# coding: utf-8
+# Generate pages from individual records in yml files
+# (c) 2014-2016 Adolfo Villafiorita
+# Distributed under the conditions of the MIT License
+
+module Jekyll
+
+  module Sanitizer
+    # strip characters and whitespace to create valid filenames, also lowercase
+    def sanitize_filename(name)
+      if(name.is_a? Integer)
+        return name.to_s
+      end
+      return name.tr(
+  "ÀÁÂÃÄÅàáâãäåĀāĂ㥹ÇçĆćĈĉĊċČčÐðĎďĐđÈÉÊËèéêëĒēĔĕĖėĘęĚěĜĝĞğĠġĢģĤĥĦħÌÍÎÏìíîïĨĩĪīĬĭĮįİıĴĵĶķĸĹĺĻļĽľĿŀŁłÑñŃńŅņŇňʼnŊŋÑñÒÓÔÕÖØòóôõöøŌōŎŏŐőŔŕŖŗŘřŚśŜŝŞşŠšſŢţŤťŦŧÙÚÛÜùúûüŨũŪūŬŭŮůŰűŲųŴŵÝýÿŶŷŸŹźŻżŽž",
+  "AAAAAAaaaaaaAaAaAaCcCcCcCcCcDdDdDdEEEEeeeeEeEeEeEeEeGgGgGgGgHhHhIIIIiiiiIiIiIiIiIiJjKkkLlLlLlLlLlNnNnNnNnnNnNnOOOOOOooooooOoOoOoRrRrRrSsSsSsSssTtTtTtUUUUuuuuUuUuUuUuUuUuWwYyyYyYZzZzZz"
+).downcase.strip.gsub(' ', '-').gsub(/[^\w.-]/, '')
+    end
+  end
+
+  # this class is used to tell Jekyll to generate a page
+  class DataPage < Page
+    include Sanitizer
+
+    # - site and base are copied from other plugins: to be honest, I am not sure what they do
+    #
+    # - `index_files` specifies if we want to generate named folders (true) or not (false)
+    # - `dir` is the default output directory
+    # - `data` is the data defined in `_data.yml` of the record for which we are generating a page
+    # - `name` is the key in `data` which determines the output filename
+    # - `template` is the name of the template for generating the page
+    # - `extension` is the extension for the generated file
+    def initialize(site, base, index_files, dir, data, name, template, extension)
+      @site = site
+      @base = base
+
+      # @dir is the directory where we want to output the page
+      # @name is the name of the page to generate
+      #
+      # the value of these variables changes according to whether we
+      # want to generate named folders or not
+      if data[name] == nil
+        puts "error (datapage_gen). empty value for field '#{name}' in record #{data}"
+      else
+        filename = sanitize_filename(data[name]).to_s
+
+        @dir = dir + (index_files ? "/" + filename + "/" : "")
+        @name = (index_files ? "index" : filename) + "." + extension.to_s
+
+        self.process(@name)
+        self.read_yaml(File.join(base, '_layouts'), template + ".html")
+        self.data['title'] = data[name]
+        # add all the information defined in _data for the current record to the
+        # current page (so that we can access it with liquid tags)
+        self.data.merge!(data)
+      end
+    end
+  end
+
+  class DataPagesGenerator < Generator
+    safe true
+
+    # generate loops over _config.yml/page_gen invoking the DataPage
+    # constructor for each record for which we want to generate a page
+
+    def generate(site)
+      # page_gen_dirs determines whether we want to generate index pages
+      # (name/index.html) or standard files (name.html). This information
+      # is passed to the DataPage constructor, which sets the @dir variable
+      # as required by this directive
+      index_files = site.config['page_gen-dirs'] == true
+
+      # data contains the specification of the data for which we want to generate
+      # the pages (look at the README file for its specification)
+      data = site.config['page_gen']
+      if data
+        data.each do |data_spec|
+          index_files_for_this_data = data_spec['index_files'] != nil ? data_spec['index_files'] : index_files
+          template = data_spec['template'] || data_spec['data']
+          name = data_spec['name']
+          dir = data_spec['dir'] || data_spec['data']
+          extension = data_spec['extension'] || "html"
+
+          if site.layouts.key? template
+            # records is the list of records defined in _data.yml
+            # for which we want to generate different pages
+            records = nil
+            data_spec['data'].split('.').each do |level|
+              if records.nil?
+                records = site.data[level]
+              else
+                records = records[level]
+              end
+            end
+
+            # apply filtering conditions:
+            # - filter requires the name of a boolean field
+            # - filter_condition evals a ruby expression
+            records = records.select { |r| r[data_spec['filter']] } if data_spec['filter']
+            records = records.select { |record| eval(data_spec['filter_condition']) } if data_spec['filter_condition']
+
+            records.each do |record|
+              site.pages << DataPage.new(site, site.source, index_files_for_this_data, dir, record, name, template, extension)
+            end
+          else
+            puts "error (datapage_gen). could not find template #{template}" if not site.layouts.key? template
+          end
+        end
+      end
+    end
+  end
+
+  module DataPageLinkGenerator
+    include Sanitizer
+
+    # use it like this: {{input | datapage_url: dir}}
+    # to generate a link to a data_page.
+    #
+    # the filter is smart enough to generate different link styles
+    # according to the data_page-dirs directive ...
+    #
+    # ... however, the filter is not smart enough to support different
+    # extensions for filenames.
+    #
+    # Thus, if you use the `extension` feature of this plugin, you
+    # need to generate the links by hand
+    def datapage_url(input, dir)
+      extension = Jekyll.configuration({})['page_gen-dirs'] ? '/' : '.html'
+      "#{dir}/#{sanitize_filename(input)}#{extension}"
+    end
+  end
+
+end
+
+Liquid::Template.register_filter(Jekyll::DataPageLinkGenerator)