Vincent Massol wrote:
> On Mar 6, 2009, at 2:47 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
>
>> Vincent Massol wrote:
>>> Hi devs,
>>>
>>> Someone on the list asked how create a link and an image pointing
>>> to a
>>> relative reference (that he got using one of XWiki's API since they
>>> all return relative URL). We currently don't have a good solution for
>>> this and I'd like to propose a solution.
>>>
>>> For links
>>> =======
>>>
>>> Make the usage of a prefix that specifies what comes next a generic
>>> feature. We have the following needs:
>>> * link to a URL
>>> * link to a relative path
>>> * link to a document
>>> * link to a mailto
>>> * link to an attachment
>>>
>>> I propose the following syntax:
>>>
>>> [[label>>prefix:value]]
>>>
>>> where prefix = one of http:, path:, doc:, mailto:, attach:
>>>
>>> In addition I propose that when there's no prefix or if the prefix is
>>> an unknown prefix then to consider that the reference is a reference
>>> to a document (equivalent to doc:).
>>>
>>> Pros:
>>> * Generic
>>> * Ability to add more prefixes later on (for ex ftp:)
>>> * Ability to have virtual wikis which have "reserved" names such as
>>> "doc", "http", "ftp", "mailto", etc since you can write
>>> [[doc:doc:Space.Page]]
>>> * Ability to write shorthand for documents in the text, such as:
>>> "This
>>> is a link doc:Space.Page"
>>> * Ability to reference relative paths and write stuff such as
>>> {{velocity}}[[label>>path:$xwiki.getURL(something)]]{{/velocity}}
>>>
>>> For images
>>> =========
>>>
>>> * Similar to links add the ability to add prefixes in a generic way.
>>> We have the following needs:
>>> * image where the source is at a URL
>>> * image where the source is at a relative path
>>> * image where the source is in a document
>>>
>>> I propose the following syntax:
>>>
>>> image:prefix:value
>>>
>>> where prefix = one of http:, path:, attach:
>>>
>>> Note that we already support image:http://... so the proposal here is
>>> simply to make it generic.
>>>
>>> In addition I propose that when there's no prefix or if the prefix is
>>> unknown then to consider that the image is to be found in a document
>>> (equivalent to attach:).
>>>
>>> Same pros as above.
>>>
>>> Here's my +1
>>>
>> +1
>>
>> What's the cost of changing the wiki separator to ::, as in
>> doc:mywiki::Space.Document?
>
> From a rendering module perspective, it's 0 cost. The whole content
> is considered a doc name and passed as is to the Document Access Bridge.
>
In the bridge for the moment it would suffice to do a replace("::",
":"). What are the changes in the WYSIWYG?
--
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
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