[xwiki-devs] [Discussion] Designing the new Rendering/Parsing component/API

[Vincent Massol]

On Sep 11, 2007, at 7:22 PM, Jean-Vincent Drean wrote:

>> Yes this is like solution 1 in that you cannot mix syntaxes within a
>> given document whereas solution 2 allows that.
>
> I don't see benefits from being able to mix different syntaxes within
> a document so I'd give +1 to solution 1 (with a meta).
>
> In fact I'm not sure to see the advantages of a syntax choice at the
> document level (I'd have naturaly put it at the wiki level). Sorry if
> it has already been discussed on the list.

It hasn't been discussed AFAIR... so this is the right place and time  
to discuss it.

I can think of one use case:

* I've an existing wiki (says xwiki.org) which is using the old wiki  
syntax (the current one) and I want to migrate it to the new syntax  
(say it's creole for example). It would be nice if I could mix the 2  
syntaxes during this migration.

Now you have a good point, I don't see many more use cases :) and  
thus I'd agree with you if we have another way of doing this migration.

Does anyone know if WikiModel has syntax migration tools?

Thanks
-Vincent