Vincent Massol wrote: > On Dec 28, 2008, at 11:45 PM, Dan Miron wrote: > > >> Vincent Massol wrote: >> >>> ............................................................ >>> >>>> Reason: >>>> The goal is to reuse the boxMacro in for implementing RssMacro, >>>> Warning >>>> and Error macros. The most complex of them being the RssMacro. So, >>>> a RSS >>>> feed should be rendered as follows: >>>> --------------------------------------- >>>> optional image (provided as an URL to an image stored outside the >>>> wiki, >>>> anywhere in the web) >>>> >>> How do you implement this? If it's optional what happens if it's not >>> specified? >>> >>> Could you show us an example of using the macro? >>> >> See http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Macros/RssMacro. >> > > Dan I was actually talking about the Box macro. > > My question was: what's your design for providing an image to display > or not. More specifically where can the image come from? If the answer > is: from a document then I think it's too restrictive since we can > have some images located in the skin on the filesystem for ex. Image > the info, error and warning macros. I don't think their images should > come from a document. > > Thanks > -Vincent > > Well, I've just found out that for rendering the error and the warning macros we actually don't need to explicitly specify an image to be displayed, the icon which they show up is specified in their CSS sheets. Therefore, I'm thinking of letting the image come from an external URL only, in the Box Macro, in order to use it for the RssMacro. I've been suggested to allow wiki syntax for specifying the image, so if anyone still finds this useful, take these matters into account, please let me know.
Thanks, Dan >> I'm willing to >> preserve the behavior of the old RssMacro as much as possible, except >> for the new syntax, of course. So, given the feed's URL, we check >> if it has an image or not. Then, we invoke the boxMacro, in >> which we >> pass as parameters the following: the title is the feed's title (i >> don't >> know whether there can be RSS feeds without a title, but in the >> assumption that there is no title, we don't place anything in this >> field), the image is the one we just picked before (if there is one, >> of >> course; if there isn't, we just don't put anything there). As for the >> body, for each article from our feed, we invoke again the boxMacro for >> building the "small boxes" in a similar manner, just like I >> described in >> the previous message. >> >> For more details we can talk tomorrow when I get at the office. >> >>>> title (which can be a static text or a link to a web location >>>> containing >>>> the full news article) >>>> >>> This should be optional. >>> >>> Thanks >>> -Vincent >>> >> _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
