Re: [xwiki-devs] [Discussion] Annotations improvements (wider annotations target) and roadmap update

Hi Anca, Here's my understanding of what you suggest: Document text: "word1 word2 word3 word4 word5 word6." Annotation on "word4" results in: - Selection: "word4" (unique within the context) - Context: "word3 word4 word5" (unique within this document) Then all you need to do to mark this annotation, is to locate the document-unique context and then to mark the selection within the document-area defined by the context. I see 2 major issues here: 1. The selection must be itself unique within the context, otherwise you just have the same big problem, at a smaller scale. This directly restricts the context's size. 2. How can the document-uniqueness of a context be ensured? - Fixed size context is not that practical. - Computing the context size at creation time with the js client becomes a must, but if it fails to identify such an unique context, you risc having all the document as context. Example document text: "word4 word4 word4 word4 word4 word4" - The matching is done *after* the dynamic part of the document finishes to execute. That dynamic part could potentially generate a copy of the context and confuse the matching algorithm. Maybe I misunderstood the proposal or missed some key detail, otherwise, please let me know. P.S.: I like examples :) Thanks, Eduard On 10/30/2009 05:21 PM, Anca Luca wrote: