10 Nov
2009
10 Nov
'09
6:20 p.m.
Hi devs,
I'm reviving this thread since I didn't really get any votes, and I'm about to
pick some development direction.
On 10/30/2009 05:21 PM, Anca Luca wrote:
Hi devs,
following a discussion with Fabio about the second desired feature for the
annotations, namely the ability to add annotations on any document, no matter
how its content is generated, we came up with the solution described at
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/AnnotationFeature#HSolution1stor…
, the main idea being that annotations would be defined by their selected text
and a context (as opposed to offsets) and would be identified to be rendered in
a document on a serialization of the transformed XDOM of the document, this way
taking into account any macro rendering, document inclusion, etc.
WDYT about this solution?
Is there anything you see not doable in this? or any of its "cons" is a
showstopper?
Also, because the implementation of this, though relatively localized, comes
together with refactor and cleanup of the annotations module (update everything
so that annotations don't store and use offsets anymore, remove classes&
functions which are not needed in this simplified process), I propose to include
this improvement in version 1.0 of the annotations module (so that we don't
cleanup and release what we know for sure we'll delete) and push the 1.0 version
further to mid to end December.
here's my +1 for this,
WDYT?
Following a discussion with Fabio today, the plan at this moment is to:
1/ finish improving the tests (so that the power and limitations of the current
solution are checked by a set of tests)
2/ eliminate all the code related to implementations for specific document types
(watch's feed entry documents, for example, everything should be handled as an
xwiki doc), so that the remaining code is cleaner and easier to maintain
3/ implement a prototype of the solution presented above, hopefully passing at
least the tests that were passing at 1/
4/ minimal improvements on the js UI, making it usable in real life
5/ release 1.0
Is there a different strategy you would prefer?
Thanks,
Anca
Happy coding,
Anca
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