As was pointed out before the rewriter is used in a lot of projects for other things than rewriting links (in our case we use it a lot to inject legal disclaimers or content fragment models)
The bigger problem however is that it assumes hml == xml and hence can not deal with attributes with no value Ruben On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 5:12 AM Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacre...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 3:07 PM Jason E Bailey <j...@apache.org> wrote: > > ...Can anyone summarize why we are getting rid of it?... > > I'm not sure if we need to "get rid" of that module, even if some > portion of Sling users stops using it. > > The proposal at [1] says the rewriter should be "deprecated and no > longer used", which is apparently what was discussed at the adaptTo > round table or hackathon. > > If people still find the module useful I think it''s fine to move it > to "contrib" status instead of deprecating. As long as there's a > reasonable expectation that the module will be maintained I think > that's a realistic status, but our guarantees are weak for contrib > modules so there's no pressure. > > And if other modules provide better ways of doing similar things, link > to them from the rewriter's docs. > > -Bertrand > > [1] > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c80093524461d7203fa9799b79ebbf6bfd1bb3f9795865f4aaf3cd4a@%3Cdev.sling.apache.org%3E > -- thank you Ruben Reusser CTO, headwire.com, Inc
