3 Jul
2009
3 Jul
'09
8:49 a.m.
Hi,
On Jul 3, 2009, at 3:29 AM, Regan Gill wrote:
Hi All,
We upgraded our internal wiki from xwiki 1.6 to xwiki 1.9 recently and
discovered that our old macro syntax doesn't work any longer because
we
have the default syntax set to 2.0. I had added some custom macros,
one
of which added links to documents stored in a particular location.
This
was connecting our svn document storage with the xwiki documentation
and
was simple enough for all my users to use.
##
## Insert a link to a document in the documentation repository
## Usage
## doclink( "repo_path_to_doc" "display_name")
##
#macro(doclink $path $name)
<a href="/docs_repo/$path">$name</a>#end
My users didn't have to worry about how the repository was managed
on my
xwiki server or use html.
Now I need to have them do this
{{velocity}}{{html}}#doclink("repo_path_to_doc"
"display_name){{/html}}{{/velocity}}
Instead of
#doclink( "repo_path_to_doc" "display_name")
It may not seem like a big deal to a developer, but it is less user
friendly. I want to continue with the new syntax, but I was
wondering if
this is going to be the permanent syntax for macros.
The plan is to provide a way to expose wiki content in pages as
macros. This planned in 2.0 milestone 2 (ie in about 3-4 weeks).
The idea is that you would add some Macro Objects to a page and
describe the macro using that objects (name, parameters, default
values, content, etc). Once this is done the macro will be available
as any rendering macro, i.e using wiki syntax {{mymacro..../}} or from
the WYSIWYG editor.
Thanks
-Vincent