no better idea...
a very special case to remind in the syntax help to my mind...

Pascal

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Vincent Massol <vinc...@massol.net> wrote:

> After trying to implement it I've found the following caveats:
>
> * if the user wants an html comment he needs to escape the --
> * if the user wants a NL he'll need to enter <br/>
> * if the user wants a paragraph he'll need to enter <p>...</p>
> * And the most problematic one IMO: the user needs to be very careful
> about new lines since:
>
> <table>
> <tr>
> <td>
> * [[listitem]]
> </td>
> </tr>
> </table>
>
> is very different from
>
> <table>
> <tr>
> <td>
> * [[listitem]]
>
> </td>
> </tr>
> </table>
>
> In the first case the </td>, </tr> and </table> and continuation of
> the list item written in wiki syntax since the wiki parser accepts
> multiline content... hence you'll get in XHTML:
>
> <table><tbody><tr><td><ul><li><!--startwikilink:listitem--><span
> class="wikicreatelink"><a href="/xwiki/bin/view/listitem?
> parent=xwiki:Space.Page"><span class="wikigeneratedlinkcontent">Page</
> span></a></span><!--stopwikilink--></td></tr></tbody></table></li></ul>
>
> which is completely invalid.
>
> The same applies for:
>
> {{macro/}}
> </td>
>
> vs
>
> {{macro/}}
>
> </td>
>
> in the first case the macro is inline and will generate inline content
> and in the second case it's standalone.
>
> Still trying to figure out a best solution but I don't see one right
> now...
>
> If you have any idea, shoot!
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
> On May 4, 2009, at 3:25 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > After discussing with Thomas we've reached the conclusion that we
> > should change the way the HTML macro handle its content when
> > wiki=true.
> > For ex take the following input:
> >
> > {{velocity}}
> > ...
> > {{html wiki="true"}}
> > <form>
> > $xwiki.includeForm("XWiki.MyClassSheet")
> > <br />
> > <p>
> > <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Create this new
> > Workpackage" />
> > </p>
> > </form>
> > {{/html}}
> > ...
> > {{/velocity}}
> >
> > And assume that MyClassSheet has some $doc.display() velocity code
> > which thus generate {{html}} macros.
> >
> > Current Result
> > ============
> >
> > Right now here's what happens:
> > 1) velocity macro is executed and $xwiki.includeForm executes
> > 2) MyClassSheet generate {{html}} macro content thus yielding:
> >
> > {{html wiki="true"}}
> > <form>
> > {{html}}...<someTag>...</someTag>{{/html}}
> > </form>
> > {{/html}}
> >
> > 3) After velocity has finished executing the velocity macro calls
> > the wiki parser on the result and thus the top level HTML macro
> > executes
> > 4) since wiki=true the content is given to a SAX parser and each XML
> > tag content is given to the wiki parser. Thus "{{html}}...", "..."
> > and "{{/html}}"  will be parser by the wiki parser separately
> > (because <someTag> is valid XML), thus generating non expected
> > content as a result.
> >
> > Proposed change
> > ==============
> >
> > Modify the HTML behavior so that the wiki parser executes first
> > (instead of the SAX parser) and render the result using a special
> > renderer that prints the special symbols and text as is.
> >
> > When run on our example this would give (same steps 1) and 2)):
> >
> > 3) wiki parser executes and generate XDOM. Render it using the
> > special renderer
> >
> > Note that this means that if in HTML your write content that has a
> > meaning in some wiki syntax you'll need to escape it. For example if
> > you have:
> >
> > {{html wiki=true}}
> > <!--hello-->
> > {{/html}}
> >
> > you'll get some strikethrough. So you'll need to write instead:
> >
> > {{html wiki=true}}
> > <!~-~-hello~-~->
> > {{/html}}
> >
> > WDYT?
> >
> > Here's my +1
> >
> > Thanks
> > -Vincent
> >
>
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