Re: [xwiki-devs] Parser Issuer

Hi Malaka, On Jul 1, 2008, at 6:20 AM, malaka ekanayake wrote: Did you get Marius' input on this? I remember I said: " * Re the offset and lengthn I think this is something interesting that could be added to the new rendering module. Since the underlying parsers (wikimodel, doxia) don't pass this information to us we would need to compute it. It would allow us to answer the question "what block is located at location NN in the source document". * We need to get Marius' input since he's working on the new WYSIWYG editor for XWiki and maybe he has some similar needs/issues. " The reason I said this is because if the only requirement is for your use case then you could easily compute the offset/lenght for your use case only (by writing a very simple Listener and running XDOM.traverse(yourllistener). However if the need is generic then it makes sense to have it in the rendering component itself. I'm still hesitating about the generic need about this. If we agree to add it in the rendering component then I can implement it for you. Another question for you: once you have this information what's the algorithm for finding the block that corresponds to a given location in the source document? Dichotomy on the tree? Thanks -Vincent