On Dec 17, 2008, at 2:38 PM, Thomas Mortagne wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]>  
> wrote:
>>
>> On Dec 17, 2008, at 12:57 PM, Lucien PEREIRA wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Working on annotation feature, I need to retrieve
>>> xwiki document source code from a selection on XHTML.
>>>
>>> This requires to have a correspondence between content
>>> typed by user and content that appears in html.
>>>
>>> I noticed in xwiki 2.0 synthax that white spaces typed
>>> in a list item context are ignored :
>>>
>>> *<
>>> space
>>>>
>>> <
>>> space
>>>> < 
>>>> space 
>>>> ><space><space>foo<space><space><space>bar<space><space><space>
>>>
>>> renders in XHTML
>>>
>>> <li>foo<space>&nbsp;&nbsp;bar&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
>>>
>>> so I could not determine the real offset of selection in xwiki
>>> document source.
>>
>> There's another problem: leading spaces before list items and  
>> headers.
>> We need to allow them (for several reasons, one of them is for
>> supporting indenting velocity code when we have velocity mixed with
>> wiki syntax). So in term of rendering they should be considered as a
>> ListItemBlock and the spaces should not be rendered.
>>
>> One problem is when we go through the wysiwyg these spaces will be
>> removed. Removing them for content not in macros is not such a big
>> deal IMO (except for Lucien's use case but there are other ways of
>> doing it for him). Removing them would be a problem when inside
>> macros. Fortunately we don't touch at macro content for the moment.
>>
>>> This can be solved by not ignoring spaces so render become :
>>>
>>> <
>>> li
>>>>
>>> &nbsp
>>> ;&nbsp
>>> ;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;foo<space>&nbsp;&nbsp;bar&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
>>>
>>> This policy of rendering already exists in underline or italic
>>> context so it's strange to have a different behaviour in list
>>> item context.
>>>
>>> Moreover I think we should not suppose what content is
>>> relevant for user or not, so source shouldn't be altered.
>>
>> We have to alter source in the case of badly formed content, as in
>> "**bold". We also later for unisignificant escapes (as with "~hello"'
>> is transformed into "hello")  + some other use cases probably.
>>
>> Right now I don't have any idea of what to do differently. Only  
>> idea I
>> could think of would be to have a parameter for list items and
>> headers, passing to them the number of leading spaces, tabs, etc  
>> but I
>> don't like this too much.
>>
>> I think the idea of leaving the content intact is not correct and we
>> shouldn't expect that behavior for a wiki syntax. A wiki syntax needs
>> to be as simple as possible for users to use. Allowing leading spaces
>> go in that direction. OTOH I agree with Lucien that we've decided to
>> make spaces in paragraph significant so it's not fully consistent.
>>
>> What do others think?
>
> I agree that it's not alway possible to respect the original source
> especially with useless escapes (~toto which become toto).
>
> Now in the case of list item content I think we should support it
> because it's exactly the same context that space in a paragraph and
> such so it have to behave the same way for consistency.
>
> So +1 to support spaces at begining of list item.

Could you explain what you mean by "support spaces at begining of list  
item"?

Thanks
-Vincent

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