On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 13:15, Vincent Massol
<vincent(a)massol.net> wrote:
On May 4, 2009, at 12:46 PM, Jean-Vincent Drean
wrote:
> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Thomas Mortagne
> <thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi devs,
>>
>> In 2.0 architecture we have no way currently to print a strongly
>> formatted text (like JSON) or simply a plain text without XHTML which
>> we are doing generally using xpage=plain in XWiki 1.0
>>
> With the 1.0 syntax xpage=plain was mainly used to:
> 1/ Output data in special format (JSON, xls, etc). In those cases
> {pre} was used to avoid xhtml transformations.
> 2/ Output xhtml content without the XWiki UI, I can think of one use
> case where this content was put in ajax tooltips.
>
> Is 2/ covered ? Do we need a xpage=xhtml for it ?
> Note that xpage=xpart&vm=contentview.vm can be used as a workaround.
>
If you we want to have something clean for the future it seems to me
that having a parameter called outputType (or simply output, or type,
or contentType) which can take all renderer values would be best.
For ex outputType=xhtml, xwiki, text, pdf, rtf, etc
And when not specified it would default to outputType=xhtml.
For removing the UI I'd use another parameter since it's orthogonal.
Something like showUI=true|false
As i said this mail is about finding what to do with xpage=plain and
not find the way to call the plain text renderer. I just want to know
if we try to be able to use xpage=plain with 2.0 content or if we
don't do anything an say that you have to do this another way for 2.0.
I think it's better to do it another way in 2.0 and keep xpage=plain
compatible, so that pages that are called with this parameter (from AJAX
requests for example) can be converted and keep offering their service.
If we use a plain text renderer, it will break functionalities if/when
converting to 2.0 (for example UI displayed in lightboxes, ajax
updaters, etc)