Hi Vincent,

I remember we talked about this when I started to work on the WYSIWYG. 
Therefor I implemented the new editor having in mind that it should be 
as much as possible independent of the storing syntax. The diagrams I 
had attached to XWIKI-2497 show that:

* you can define a SyntaxValidator for a specific syntax (like 
XWikiSyntaxValidator for xwiki/2.0) to disable/enable features in 
particular contexts. This validator is loaded based on the syntax 
configuration parameter. See editwysiwygnew.vm for:

var Wysiwyg0 = {
   ...
   syntax: "$doc.syntaxId",
   ...
};

* each plugin has access to the configuration object and thus can decide 
based on the syntax parameter what to do. It can expose no features or 
expose features based on the storing syntax. So you can put the bold 
feature on the tool bar and the text plugin can associate a different 
behavior based on the syntax.

All this is already implemented. Of course it needs to be improved. But 
anyone willing to customize the behavior of the editor based on the 
storing syntax should be able to do it.

So for me the question is: are we going to support other syntaxes on the 
client side (custom WYSIWYG behavior) or just on the server side 
(parser/renderer)? I guess the answer is: just on the server side for 
the moment since the new editor is still not ready and it should work 
perfectly with xwiki/2.0 syntax first.

Thanks,
Marius

Vincent Massol wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just realized that our new WYSIWYG editor will only work fine with our  
> xwiki 2.0 syntax since other wiki syntaxes are less powerful and won't  
> be able to express some complex structures (like embedding a document  
> inside a table cell) or simply like styling a portion of text.
> 
> Of course this is not a problem of the wysiwyg editor per see but in  
> practice it means that users using it for other syntaxes when they  
> save will get a different rendered result.
> 
> So I"m tempted to say that our GWT editor will only work for the xwiki  
> 2.0 syntax and that for the other syntaxes users will have to use the  
> wiki editor.
> 
> WDYT?
> 
> Thanks
> -Vincent
> 
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