29 May
2012
29 May
'12
10:02 a.m.
Hi Jeremie,
On May 27, 2012, at 11:52 AM, Jeremie BOUSQUET wrote:
Hello,
For the mail archiver app, I need to output mail content in a page. I
used to use it with html content, and display is directly done with
{{html}} macro.
But most messages from mailing-lists are plain-text. My first idea was
to use {{code}}, and this is fine.
But I think display could be greatly improved using specific xwiki
syntax rendering (2.1), but for some elements only.
To do so, I would like to render some text string, not applying all
syntax elements.
Let me explain : what is interesting to render is :
- quotes (lines starting with angle brackets '>'),
- urls (replaced by links automatically),
- emoticons
Everything else (wiki macros, ...) should NOT be rendered.
Is this possible ?
Of course I don't want to impact the way xwiki renders pages.
Short answer: no
We have parsers for different syntaxes so you need to pick a syntax fully.
The only thing that can be set on or off are the transformations (i.e. macro executions
and emoticons) since those are executed on the XDOM.
Longer answer: you'd need to define your syntax and write a parser for it. Depending
on your syntax it can be easy or hard. Emoticons are already supported so you won't
need to add support for this. All you'll need from your example are recognizing quotes
and urls.
IMO it might be a lot simpler to just support XWiki Syntax 2.1. And you'll get
additional features too.
Hope it helps,
-Vincent