Re: [xwiki-devs] Xwiki+Simile Exhibit integration // request for help w/ portability issue

Although I was previously able to do a hack integration with Simile's Exhibit and Xwiki, it was too heinous to actually live with. A cleaner solution, using Xwiki's "skin extensions" for stylesheets and javascript now works. The "clean" solution required hosting my own copy of Exhibit based on checking out from the trunk the latest copy of "Exhibit." Hosting my own copy of Exhibit seems to be problematic, as the version of Exhibit I checked out from svn/trunk has issues such as (1) a non-working minified jquery that needed to be replaced w/ original, and (2) portability issue on IE (see below) on which I need help/advice. Here's my example of Xwiki/Exhibit integration: http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Exhibit/Presidents Here's the original example from which above was derived: http://simile-widgets.org/exhibit/examples/presidents/presidents.html Xwiki Source Code: Presidents< http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Exhibit/Presidents?viewer=code> Data used by example: PresidentsSchemaJSON< http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Exhibit/PresidentsSchemaJSON?xpage=pla… PresidentsJSON< http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Exhibit/PresidentsJSON?xpage=plain> Attached, because there's no easy way to view these, the contents of XWiki.StyleSheetExtension[0] and XWiki.JavaScriptExtension[0] -- these are objects attached to the underlying Xwiki document http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Exhibit/Presidents which cause the appropriate magic to happen in the header via calls to $xwiki.ssx.use("$doc.fullName") and $xwiki.jsx.use("$doc.fullName"). It's all explained in the preamble for http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Exhibit/Presidents?viewer=code : http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/resources/js/exhibit/api/scripts/jquery-1.3.2.m… http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/resources/js/exhibit/api/scripts/jquery-1.3.2.m… http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/resources/js/exhibit/api/exhibit-api.jsdifferent http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/resources/js/Simile/Exhibit/webapp/styles.csswo… line below does not: from ------------ ISSUE AND REQUEST FOR HELP: In IE, after the simile busy-spinner has popped up indicating a successful load of Exhibit, the following errors happen, causing three successive dialog boxes: (1) "Caught exception: ColorCoder: Error processing configuration of coder Details: 'firstChild.nodeValue' is null or not an object (2) Caught exception: undefined Details: 'firstChild.nodeValue' is null or not an object (3) IE error: Line 1831, char 52, Error: object expected Suggestions on which version of "Exhibit" or "Simile-Ajax-API" to use in order to get rid of this error would be appreciated. It is interesting to note that the "trunk" version of the same example http://trunk.simile-widgets.org/exhibit/examples/presidents/presidents.html… fine in IE. Is this the same issue noted previously: http://www.mail-archive.com/simile-widgets@googlegroups.com/msg00385.html http://www.mail-archive.com/simile-widgets@googlegroups.com/msg00391.html http://www.mail-archive.com/simile-widgets@googlegroups.com/msg00846.html? ?? ---------- TODO: One last remaining hack is that I put the following in the headers /> via the "Exhibit" space's "HTTP Meta Information" administration setting ( http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/admin/Exhibit/WebPreferences?editor=spacead… ). I would like to figure out a way to set these values directly in javascript inside the document itself (or inside additional instances of XWiki.JavaScriptExtension) rather than having them read as external json files, e.g. http://www.mail-archive.com/general@simile.mit.edu/msg02434.html http://www.nabble.com/JSON-created-locally-td17507332.html http://www.patrickgmj.net/node/161 -- Niels. http://nielsmayer.com _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs