Ok, It's clear now.

Thanks,
Marius.

Vincent Massol wrote:
> On Nov 22, 2008, at 2:32 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
> 
>> On Nov 22, 2008, at 2:21 PM, Marius Dumitru Florea wrote:
>>
>>> Vincent Massol wrote:
>>>> On Nov 22, 2008, at 10:53 AM, Marius Dumitru Florea wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thomas Mortagne wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Vincent Massol
>>>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>>>> On Nov 21, 2008, at 12:30 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Nov 21, 2008, at 12:06 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> We have a decision to take to support image parameters when
>>>>>>>>> we're
>>>>>>>>> linking to an image.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Here's what this would mean with the current syntax:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> [[[[image:attach.png||height="100" width="100"]]>>http://
>>>>>>>>> xwiki.org||
>>>>>>>>> param=value]]
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Is that what we want?
>>>>>>> After discussing with Thomas we both agreed that we'd prefer to
>>>>>>> have
>>>>>>> this syntax above, i.e.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [[[[image:attach.png||height="100" width="100"]]>>http://
>>>>>>> xwiki.org||
>>>>>>> param=value]]
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> And the good news is that I think I know how to modify wikimodel
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> support this.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'll thus try to implement this starting now.
>>>>>> Ok then no need to answer the previous mail ;)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I will just add something about why I think we need to support the
>>>>>> current syntax in place of finding one:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is a more generic problem that just image, how do deal with a
>>>>>> link in a link should be only a renderer choice and it should not
>>>>>> break the parser.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If we say that link label is inline wiki syntax then link label is
>>>>>> inline wiki syntax with no particular case. It's really way easier
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> understandable for user and in general more logical to have only
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> label of the link in a link (because XHTML renderer decided to
>>>>>> render
>>>>>> it that way) than a broken link.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So to conclude if we want to change the image syntaxe it should  
>>>>>> not
>>>>>> be
>>>>>> for this image in link problem.
>>>>> I agree, +1.
>>>> We can't have links inside links. It doesn't make sense since none  
>>>> of
>>>> our renderers will support this. I also haven't seen any output
>>>> format
>>>> supporting this so far (even XPointer doesn't AFAIK). Mikhail (from
>>>> wikimodel) is also strongly against it.
>>>>
>>>> What I have implemented is images inside links. So if you have the
>>>> following:
>>>>
>>>> [[hello [[nolink]]>>reference]]
>>>>
>>>> it will mean:
>>>>
>>>> A link pointing to the following reference: "hello [[nolink"  
>>>> followed
>>>> by the text: ">>reference]]".
>>> Q: Given the following text:
>>>
>>> [[a [[b]] ]]
>> This is the same example I gave above.
>>
>> This is a link to "a [[b" followed by the text "]]"
>>
>>> Is the first (end) "]]" marker associated with the first or the last
>>> (start) "[[" marker? In other words, is the parsing based on a queue
>>> or
>>> on a stack?
>>>
>>> I would expect it to use a stack. In this case I'm not clear why the
>>> inner block cannot be a child of the outer block in the resulting
>>> DOM-like tree. The previous text can be invalid (doesn't pass a DTD-
>>> like
>>> check), but I think it should be well-formed (start markers pair with
>>> end markers), provided we allow wiki syntax inside link label.
>>>
>>> I may be missing something since I don't know much about what the
>>> rendering module does under the hood.
>> This is not the rendering module. It's WikiModel which is using JavaCC
>> to parse the content.
>>
>> What you suggested is possible but every complex and leads to 2 major
>> problems (this is what I started doing yesterday and ended up
>> reverting):
>>
>> * If you don't have a closing ]] you have to go till the end of the
>> document and thus the rest of the document will be the reference...
> 
> Just to be clear what it means is that if you have [[ somewhere in  
> your document, you'll get a link even if you don't have a closing ]]  
> token whereas right now it won't be considered a link (and rightly so).
> 
> -Vincent
> 
>> * It's very slow (since you have to manually count the opening and
>> closing tokens till the end of the document)
>>
>> Thanks
>> -Vincent
>>
>>>>>>>>> I'm not even sure we can implement this since wikimodel will
>>>>>>>>> consider
>>>>>>>>> the reference to be:
>>>>>>>>> [[[[image:attach.png||height="100" width="100"]]
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> (since it'll use the first closing reference marker, i.e. "]]")
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> So the question is: do we want to use a different syntax for
>>>>>>>>> images
>>>>>>>>> or
>>>>>>>>> should I try to make this one work?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> WDYT?
>>>>>>>> I can think of the following solutions:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 1) Use a different syntax. For example: ((...))
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [[((attach.png||height="100" width="100"))>>http://xwiki.org||
>>>>>>>> param=value]]
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 2) Only allow inline images to be specified (i.e.
>>>>>>>> [[label>>image:...]]
>>>>>>>> wouldn't be valid) and have a special handling for (% %)  when
>>>>>>>> placed
>>>>>>>> before an inline image so that the params are applied to the img
>>>>>>>> tag
>>>>>>>> and not to a span tag. Note: not sure how hard this is to do.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 3) Allow passing parameters for inline images use a special
>>>>>>>> syntax.
>>>>>>>> For example: image:my.png||param=value. This would mean:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [[attach.png||height="100" width="100">>http://xwiki.org||
>>>>>>>> param=value]]
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ([[attach.png||height="100" width="100"]] would still be an  
>>>>>>>> image
>>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>> not a link)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> WDYT? Any other idea?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>>> -Vincent
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