[SOLVED] AEM 6.4: Using wildcards in filter definition

AEM 6.4: Using wildcards in filter definition

I'm facing following issue:

In one of my content project exists the file "filter.xml". It contains following entries:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<workspaceFilter version="1.0">
    <filter root="/content/sites/de/produktpartner/a/rep:policy" mode="merge" />
    ...
   <filter root="/content/sites/de/produktpartner/z/rep:policy" mode="merge" />
</workspaceFilter>

My question is: To limit the entries in filter.xml can I use wildcards? If so, how? I tried

<filter root="/content/sites/de/produktpartner/*/rep:policy" mode="merge" />

but it seemed not work.

Solution

The root must be a path but you can further specify filters that allow regular expressions.

<filter root="/content/sites" mode="merge" />
    <include pattern="/content/sites/[a-z]{2}/produktpartner/(.*)/rep:policy"/>
</filter>

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