Re: [xwiki-devs] [VOTE] New Link and Image syntax for XWiki Syntax 2.2

Hi devs, I have a very bad feeling with proposal 3, since it split the identifier, which makes its main part to loose its meaning when taken alone. So you cannot comunicate the whole information easily on different channels

about copy/pasting such reference ?). This is also really verbose,

it looks odd, and I found it to be complex from a user view point. Moreover, it could not be easily applied in other situation than links, while ressource identification is not limited to links (think about a

arguments ?, see MotionComposer macro that imitate image: for an

I know it is hard, but I am currently -1 for this proposal. If we look at large, what we really need and intend to achieve is to have an extensible syntax to identify ressources in XWiki. There is obviously

ready made standardized syntax for such purpose: URN. Proposal 1 is

near that specification (but too verbose for URL), but I agree with

that users will complains to be forced to use doc: everywhere. This is precisely why I made proposal 2, which will fully avoid that constrains

user of single wikis (a lot of our user since XE was our mostly

distribution until now). So my vote are (sorry Vincent, but your request to have a truly single

is far too restrictive for this matter)

+1 to really conform with a URN syntax as much as possible (remove the useless verbosity for URL).

Proposal 1: +0 Proposal 2: +1 Proposal 3: -1 Thanks, On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net>

> Typos below. > > On Apr 30, 2013, at 11:02 AM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net>

> > > Hi devs, > > > > Following this thread http://markmail.org/thread/vw3derowozijqalr it > seems clear that we need to introduce a better syntax for links and

> in XWiki Syntax 2.2 (in order to cope with use cases such as > http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XRENDERING-290). > > > > The need is to be able to plug new reference type handlers without > breaking backward compatibility in XWiki Syntax 2.2 (since right now

> XWiki Syntax 2.0 and 2.1 adding a new type reference handler would break > backward compatibility). > > > > So here are various proposals to that effect for XWiki Syntax 2.2

> only kept the interesting proposals from the previous thread). Please

> for the one you prefer or add new solutions if you have other better

> > > > Proposal 1 > > ========= > > > > Force XWiki Syntax 2.2 to *ALWAYS* use the full form when creating a > link or image, i.e. all links would need to be written: > [[label>>type:reference]] > > > > Examples: > > * [[label>>doc:space.page]] > > * [[label>>doc:wiki:space.page]] > > * [[label>>path:/some/path]] > > * [[label>>url:http://xwiki.org]] > > * [[label>>user:evalica]] > > * [[image:doc:wiki:space.page@image.png]] > > * [[image:icon:someicon.png]] > > > > CONS: > > * Harder to write links to documents which is the main use case > > > > Proposal 2 > > ========= > > > > Same as with XWiki Syntax 2.1 but for links or images to subwikis

> the user to use the "doc:" notation > > > > Examples: > > * [[label>>space.page]] or [[label>>doc:space.page]] > > * [[label>>doc:wiki:space.page]] > > * [[label>>>path:/some/path]] > > Should be [[label>>path:/some/path]] > > > * [[label>>http://xwiki.org]] or [[label>>>url:http://xwiki.org]] > > Should be [[label>>http://xwiki.org]] or [[label>>url:http://xwiki.org

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