Alias

I assume that /corporation is not a node page, but a page from a module (like views).

When the pages on /corporation/* are page nodes (likely to be used in other sections as well) you can now only go on with switching on node id's and add a rule per node. That's not a very friendly way of cause, an easier way would be desired, but is difficult. I am willing to add this to Hansel, but need a clever solution for that. There are a few options:

1) A switch which matches a rule when the alias starts with the rule name (your suggestion)
In this case you can have a configuration like:

switch on url alias
- corporation
  add link "corporation"
  leave

But what if we want to add the subpages to the breadcrumbs as well? We can extend the configuration to:

switch on url alias
- corporation
  add link "corporation"
  goto rule "corporation subpage"
  - corporation subpage
    add link to page
    leave

But that will generate the breadcrumbs "Corporation > Corporation" for /corporation (cause it always adds the link to the page). So this also needs a switch to determine that a given url argument is not empty. You can now do that with the url argument switch when enabling regular expressions and set the name to ".+", but that's a bit complicated. Implementing "<empty>" makes more sense. That makes a configuration possible like:

switch on url alias
- corporation
  add link "corporation"
  switch on node argument 2
  - <empty>
    add link to page
    leave

That works for /corporation and /corporation/info (or something other that "info"), but not for the 3rd sublevel; /corporation/info/address

2) Another option may be a breadcrumb action like "add menu path", which adds crumbs from the menupath, similar to the regular Drupal breadcrumbs. Maybe this is a good way to go, when some configuration options are provided (to skip the root menu-item, for example). That can be handy for sections which have all pages inside the menu structure.

Making your use case easier to configure requires a more difficult concept than expected. I would be great to have a few troughs on this before I start coding.

The solution is more complex than just a switch on alias. But you are not totally wrong, it works for subpages, but not for subs from subs.

However, I agree that a switch on alias would be helpful for now. I am going to implement this very soon, together with <empty> (explained above).

I will update this ticket if this is in the dev snapshot. I do not plan to create an official release for this, but the dev snapshot works really well.

and thank you for your great quote "I think this module will be a "must have" if Drupal breadcrumb system doesn't change completely" :-)

A switch on path alias and support for <empty> in url argument switch have been committed to CVS and will be available in the dev snapshot soon.

thanks mau!