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