4 Jan
2009
4 Jan
'09
10:09 p.m.
Vincent Massol wrote:
On Dec 28, 2008, at 11:45 PM, Dan Miron wrote:
Well, I've just found out that for rendering the error and the warning
macros we actually don't need to explicitly specify an image to be
displayed, the icon which they show up is specified in their CSS sheets.
Therefore, I'm thinking of letting the image come from an external URL
only, in the Box Macro, in order to use it for the RssMacro. I've been
suggested to allow wiki syntax for specifying the image, so if anyone
still finds this useful, take these matters into account, please let me
know.
Thanks,
Dan
Vincent Massol wrote:
Dan I was actually talking about the Box macro.
My question was: what's your design for providing an image to display
or not. More specifically where can the image come from? If the answer
is: from a document then I think it's too restrictive since we can
have some images located in the skin on the filesystem for ex. Image
the info, error and warning macros. I don't think their images should
come from a document.
Thanks
-Vincent
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See http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Macros/RssMacro.
Reason:
The goal is to reuse the boxMacro in for implementing RssMacro,
Warning
and Error macros. The most complex of them being the RssMacro. So,
a RSS
feed should be rendered as follows:
---------------------------------------
optional image (provided as an URL to an image stored outside the
wiki,
anywhere in the web)
How do you implement this? If it's optional what happens if it's
not
specified?
Could you show us an example of using the macro?
> I'm willing to
> preserve the behavior of the old RssMacro as much as possible, except
> for the new syntax, of course. So, given the feed's URL, we check
> if it has an image or not. Then, we invoke the boxMacro, in
> which we
> pass as parameters the following: the title is the feed's title (i
> don't
> know whether there can be RSS feeds without a title, but in the
> assumption that there is no title, we don't place anything in this
> field), the image is the one we just picked before (if there is one,
> of
> course; if there isn't, we just don't put anything there). As for the
> body, for each article from our feed, we invoke again the boxMacro for
> building the "small boxes" in a similar manner, just like I
> described in
> the previous message.
>
> For more details we can talk tomorrow when I get at the office.
>
>>> title (which can be a static text or a link to a web location
>>> containing
>>> the full news article)
>>>
>> This should be optional.
>>
>> Thanks
>> -Vincent
>>
>