12 Sep
2007
12 Sep
'07
8:52 a.m.
On Sep 11, 2007, at 10:43 PM, Fabio Mancinelli wrote:
On Sep 11, 2007, at 1:46 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
I agree with all you said.
1. Have a WikiSyntax Object (A simple class with one property: a
combox box with different syntaxes: XWiki Legacy, Creole, MediaWiki,
Confluence, JSPWiki, etc) that users can attach to pages to tell the
Renderers what syntax is used. If no such object is attached then
it'll default to XWiki's default syntax (XWiki Legacy or Creole for
example).
2. Have some special syntax, independent of the wiki syntaxes to
tell the Rendered that such block of content should be rendered with
that given syntax. Again there would be a default.
Regarding multiple syntaxes... Is it really a requirement to support
them?
I think that adding this feature could lead to confusion.
For example, imagine an XWiki-Pedia as sketched in 1. A contributor
could potentially need to edit
3 documents written in 3 different syntaxes.
Solution 2. is even worse because it pushes this heterogeneity down
to the document level.
An alternative solution could be to have a model for the page that is
"presented" in different syntaxes when the page is edited. In this
way a document can be edited in whatever syntax the user feels
comfortable with. However this raises several issues... A model that
is the LCM of all the supported syntaxes is fine, but what happens
when an element in the model is requested to be presented in a syntax
that doesn't support it? The best option, probably, is to keep it simple by
having and
supporting only a single syntax for editing pages, with some "import"
plugins that can translate a previously existing content to that
syntax when a new page is created.
I think I prefer the option suggested by JV, i.e. have a
configuration option at the level of the wiki to decide what syntax a
wiki is using. Imports are required too but since WikiModel supports
several syntaxes why not offer this feature to users. That would help
a lot for people who come from an existing wiki and want to switch to
xwiki.
Of course, in my initial email there's an open question about
WikiModel's syntax of macros across syntaxes that we need to resolve.
Thanks
-Vincent
Sorry if this was an already discussed topic or if I
missed some
relevant detail :)
Cheers,
Fabio