On Sep 17, 2008, at 10:30 AM, Vincent Massol wrote: > Hi, > > I've updated this page > http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Drafts/XWikiSyntax20 > which describes both XWiki syntax 1.0 and XWiki Syntax 2.0. > > I want to make sure we agree with the following syntax decisions and > especially with regards to Creole since we want to be close to it. > > One disclaimer though: the creole specification is badly done and is > not strict enough. There are lots of ambiguities in their descriptions > of the syntax elements so it's almost impossible to ensure to be fully > compatible with some element syntaxes. > > 1) New lines > > Right now we honor new lines (we've all already voted to have this). I > just wanted to point out that this is different from Creole. > > 2) Horizontal lines > > We accept 4 or more dashes. Creole says it's 4 dashes only. However if > you try it on their test page at > http://www.wikicreole.org/EditX.jsp?page=JSPWikiTestCases > if works fine with more than 4 dashes too. > > 3) Special numbered lists > > Is it ok to have this syntax: > > (% class="roman" %) > 1. item1 > 1. item2 > > Or do we introduce new syntax elements as it's done in XWiki Syntax > 1.0: > > i. item1 > i. item2 > > See http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Drafts/XWikiSyntax20#HLists > for more examples. > > I have the feeling it would be better to use our 1.0 syntax for this > (note that this requires some heavy changes to wikimodel - Will need > to discuss it with Mikhail). > > 4) Images > > There's currently no special support for images in wikimodel. The > solution wikimodel proposes is to implement its support through > linline links. For example: > > This is an image:my.png image.
If we're ok to use the uri notationI'm proposing to use the same syntax we've started discussing for image links. image:subwiki:Space.Page^imagename Note that ^ is temporary since we haven't fully decided yet what symbol to use. I'll reopen the discussion for that. thanks -Vincent > As you can see the image is specified as a URI. > > Ok with everyone? > > Thanks > -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
