[xwiki-devs] New rendering don't parse and render xhtml properly

Thu Jul 3 00:36:09 CEST 2008

Hi Wang,

On Jul 2, 2008, at 7:39 PM, Wang Ning wrote:

> Hi Vincent,
>
> I just tried the new rendering class. My test xhtml is:
> <html>
> <head>
> <title>title of this page</title>
> </head>
> <body>
> <div>
> <p>first paragraph, really.</p>
> <p>second paragraph for test.</p>
> </div>
> </body>
> </html>
> I use WikiModelXHTMLParser to parse it and use XWikiSyntaxRenderer  
> to write
> the result to a file.
> The output is :
>
>
>     page
>
>
>
> paragraph  really.
>
>
>     test.
> I have tried add a <a href="">link</a> to the input which bring a  
> parser
> exception.
> Just tell you what I find and I'll drill into the code to see what's  
> wrong.
> Any suggestion?

This is probably related to http://code.google.com/p/wikimodel/issues/detail?id=21

I already have a small battery of tests for the XHTML parser in the  
rendering component. They are in xwiki-rendering-tests, you can check  
the WikiModelXHTMLParserTest class. Uncomment the code and run it.  
Right now it's commented because there are bugs in wikimodel which I'm  
reporting in http://code.google.com/p/wikimodel/issues/list

For example:
http://code.google.com/p/wikimodel/issues/detail?id=22
http://code.google.com/p/wikimodel/issues/detail?id=21

Now the next step is to fix the wikimodel XHTML parser...Note that  
Mikhail (the author of wikimodel) is currently working on fixing some  
of those but he's (of course) interested in getting our help.

For the link syntax it's not implemented yet. I'm going to work on  
this real soon but I need to find how to do it first.

If you're interested in helping there are 2 areas you could help:
* provide patches for the rendering module
* provide patches for wikimodel

However right now try focusing as much as possible on the office  
import work since Mikhail and myself are working on the XHTML parser  
and we'll eventually get it working.

Thanks
-Vincent