Hi Pascal,

On Aug 28, 2008, at 10:21 AM, Pascal Voitot wrote:

> I never use the table macro because I can't design tables in which  
> headers
> are not columns but headers are rows!

This will work.

> Moreover, if you need tables in which one cell has "rowspan" or  
> "colspan",
> the macro is not usable...

This will work too.

See http://code.google.com/p/wikimodel/wiki/WikiSyntaxCommon (this is  
not the xwiki syntax but the idea is to have the same support for  
tables).

Thanks
-Vincent

> With your syntax, will it be possible to do this?
>
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Thomas Mortagne
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Vincent Massol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Aug 18, 2008, at 10:38 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Jul 27, 2008, at 7:18 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Jul 23, 2008, at 6:05 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Some open issues/questions:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1) I think we need a syntax for escaping a block of text. I'd
>>>>>> propose
>>>>>> using {{{whatever here}}} (same as creole and confluence). We
>>>>>> could do
>>>>>> it with a macro but I don't know how we could implement it  
>>>>>> easily...
>>>>>
>>>>> Still not sure. Most said they liked the {{{ }}} notation. Right  
>>>>> now
>>>>> I've implemented the {{nowiki}} macro. Do we still want/need  
>>>>> this at
>>>>> the wiki syntax level?
>>>>
>>>> I think we do since it'll easier to type than {{nowiki}}. I'll
>>>> create an issue in wikimodel to add it since we were all in  
>>>> agreement.
>>>> See http://code.google.com/p/wikimodel/issues/detail?id=38
>>>>
>>>> I guess I'll just remove the nowiki macro when it's done.
>>>>
>>>> [snip]
>>>>
>>>>>> 4) Tables: do we keep the table macro or do we want a wiki syntax
>>>>>> for
>>>>>> tables.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also need more input.
>>>>
>>>> My take is that we should go with a macro since this allows us to
>>>> have more options like filterable/sortable/pageable/etc than a wiki
>>>> syntax.
>>>
>>> I was wrong. I've talked to Mikhail from wikimodel and what he's  
>>> done
>>> for the wikimodel common syntax is to allow parameters for tables in
>>> the following manner:
>>>
>>> * Parameters at the table level:
>>>
>>> {{tableParam=value ...}}
>>> || column 1 || column 2
>>> cell 1 | cell 2
>>>
>>> * Parameters at the column level:
>>>
>>> || {{columnParam=value ...}} column 1 || column 2
>>> cell 1 | cell 2
>>>
>>> * Parameters at the line level:
>>>
>>> || column 1 || column 2
>>> {{lineParam=value ...}} | Cell 1 | Cell 2
>>>
>>> * Parameters at the cell level:
>>>
>>> || column 1 || column 2
>>> {{cellParam=value...}} cell 1 | cell 2
>>>
>>> He says it's easy to do the same for the XWiki Parser in wikimodel.
>>>
>>> Of course we'll need to change the parameter delimiter since {{ }}  
>>> are
>>> already used for macros for the xwiki syntax. But we could use
>>> something like %% I guess.
>>>
>>> So I'm now more in favor of having a wiki syntax for tables  
>>> instead of
>>> a macro.
>>>
>>> WDYT?
>>
>> This syntax looks good to me, I like the very simple syntax as a
>> default where we can add details when needed.
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> -Vincent
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