[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Handling document references in UIs?

Hi, We need a consistent way to handle document references in UIs. For example, on the rename template, the title is "Renaming <string serialization of a reference here>". Thus if the page is named "?." in the space "Main" for example we get: "Renaming Main.?\." Same for the wysiwyg editor's insert link dialog box (under the title we have the technical reference printed). Proposal ======= Since references are technical I don't think we should print them in the UI. Instead we should print its constituents: wiki, space, page (or just space, page when not in multiwiki or when handling a ref not from the current wiki). This is what Caty has done in the Search UI BTW. Thus I propose to reuse her idea and print this: wiki >> space >> page where >> is the HTML &#197; symbol. You can check visually what I mean here: http://playground.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebSearch?text=test&x… Thus applying this to the example above, we would have: "Renaming Main >> ?." And thus this removes the technical aspects: * no ":" or "." to separate wiki and space *no character escaping WDYT? Any other idea to achieve the same result ? Thanks -Vincent