Re: [xwiki-dev] How to create own tags in xwiki?

On 4/3/07, kinslayer <kinslayer(a)centrum.cz> wrote: Your question gave me the impression you want to use Radeox syntax. I don't really know whether this is the best option to extend the xwiki syntax. What do the others think? What are the current alternatives? Would Velocity be better suited for this scenario? You don't parse the Radeox syntax yourself. Radeox does this and delivers the result to the appropriate macro in the form of a MacroParameter object, which despite it's name contains the values of ALL parameters of your macro invocation. Yes. And this is the code that reads the values of these parameters /* {svg:image|height|width} */ StringBuffer str = new StringBuffer(); String text = params.get("text", 0); String height = params.get("height", 1); if ((height==null)||("none".equals(height))) { height = "400"; } String width = params.get("width", 2); and then uses them to generate the appropriate markup. This is the way this extension mechanism is supposed to work. The syntax is checked by Radeox internally. If you need to change how Radeox works internally in order to implement your extension, then I don't think this is the best to extend in the first place. I don't see any reason why you can't just test the value of the datetime parameter in your Macro. Depending on it's value (after some more parsing probably) you could decide to generate some markup containing the message, or no markup at all in case the timeout has expired. Once again, there might be ways other than Radeox Macros to do this, but I don't see why this wouldn't be really simple should you want to use Radeox. Regards, Catalin