Hi Paul, If you mean transforming from XML to plain text and vice-versa yes that's currently a pain when you want to update a page. We can't transform a page content in plain text easily since we have objects/ classes into page definitions and there's no wiki syntax for these (I had this idea of defining such a syntax using macros for example but that's another story...)
The current way to do this is to use a live installation and export the page as a XAR. It's not a bad choice I think since it allows you to visualize your change through the rendering and ensure it's correct. We could do the same with XEclipse since it now has the ability to edit objects (and classes?). Now I agree it would be nice to also have the ability for XEclipse to read XML definitions from the file system. However it would still need to send it to the serve for rendering it somehow (that's till we have an XE packaged in XEclipse). Any ideas? Did I understand what you mean Paul? Thanks -Vincent On Nov 11, 2008, at 7:08 AM, Paul Libbrecht wrote: > Hello fellow developers, > > The usage of a bunch of command-line tools for checking-out the (XML > of) xwiki pages and checking them in would be really useful. > > The xar approach is not really practical: there's no merge, it's > problematic when it gets big, and it still doesn't have a command- > line to integrate within a build-flow. > > I am convinced it would be easy, for example, to use the XEclipse > code to make checkout, update, and checkin ant-tasks or command-line > tools. > > Did anyone try? > > thanks in advance _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
