On Oct 6, 2008, at 12:17 PM, Marius Dumitru Florea wrote: This need comes from Laurent Lunati who said there are cases where we need both the span and the A to able to style the way we want. It has no semantic meaning.

Marius Dumitru Florea wrote: Does the editor support namespaces? I thought it didn't... Also, does wikimodel/doxia support them? If they do, then this is the way to go.

> Anyway, I'll be able to detect/inset if it's either span or comment > or > custom attributes. One note though: in the case of span or comment > I'll > have to take care when I'm inserting other DOM nodes so the link DOM > fragment is taken as a unit. For instance, I shouldn't inset strong > or > em between the span and the anchor. > > Vincent Massol wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Since recognizing links to be xwiki links is hard (not even always >> possible) we need to add some extra information when we render wiki >> syntax content into XHTML (for the WYSIWYG editor for ex) so that we >> can convert it back to wiki syntax. >> >> We have 2 solutions I can think of: >> >> 1) Using a span with a class value: >> >> <span class="wikilinkplaceholder wikilink"><! >> [CDATA[Space.ExistingPage]]><a href="/xwiki/bin/view/Space/ >> ExistingPage">Space.ExistingPage</a></span> >> >> 2) Using a comment: >> >> <!-- startwikilink:Space.Existing --><span class="wikilink"><a >> href="/ >> xwiki/bin/view/Space/ExistingPage">Space.ExistingPage</a></span><!-- >> stopwikilink --> >> >> Pros and cons: >> >> * 2) allows not generating visible content in XHTML so that if >> someone >> copy/paste our generated XHTML he won't have to add some CSS rule to >> prevent it from being visible. BTW I'm not even sure we can find a >> CSS >> rule to do that in solution 1) so we might need to have 2 spans as >> in: >> <span class="startwikilink"><![CDATA[Space.ExistingPage]]></ >> span><span >> class="wikilinkplaceholder wikilink"><a href="/xwiki/bin/view/Space/ >> ExistingPage">Space.ExistingPage</a></span><span >> class="stopwikilink"/> >> >> * 1) is harder to code since it requires using a SAX2 >> LexicalHandler, >> which btw is not supported by all XML parsers: >> "This is an optional extension handler for SAX2 to provide lexical >> information about an XML document, such as comments and CDATA >> section >> boundaries. XML readers are not required to recognize this handler, >> and it is not part of core-only SAX2 distributions." >> It also requires that I make some modifications to wikimodel since >> wikimodel currently ignores comments. >> >> >> Solution 2) seems slightly better to me but as it's quite more >> complex >> to implement I'd like to be sure that it's the best solution. >> >> WDYT? >> >> Thanks >> -Vincent