On Jun 6, 2009, at 6:02 PM, Thomas Mortagne wrote:

> I would need some ideas for the differents modes names configuration.

What's the config param name? Any proposal?

rendering.velocity.whitespaceMode
?

(provided dots work, if not:
velocityMacro.whitespaceMode for ex)

> Here are some proposals:
> - "none": the one which do nothing (the current bahavior of velocity  
> macro)

sounds good.

> - "html"/"compact"/"full" (I don't really like any of theses): the B2
> behavior, i.e. replace whites spaces/new lines groups by a space
> (which looks like html behavior and so "html" mode name) and inject
> $nl and $sp binding in velocity context

"html" sounds good to me since it's the HTML behavior.

Another idea:
use a config param name of: stripWhitespace = none, all

Thanks
-Vincent

> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 17:24, Vincent Massol<[email protected]>  
> wrote:
>>
>> On Jun 4, 2009, at 5:23 PM, Ludovic Dubost wrote:
>>
>>> +1 Sounds good to me
>>>
>>> Will this change make the macros behave like they are today ? Or
>>> will we
>>> have a slight change behavior in default mode ?
>>
>> Default will become B2 so it'll be different. If you want the same
>> behavior you'll need to change your xwiki.properties file to  
>> specify a
>> different default mode.
>>
>> -Vincent
>>
>>> Ludovic
>>>
>>> Vincent Massol a écrit :
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> We really need to close this before 1.9 final. After discussing it
>>>> with Thomas here's what we propose:
>>>>
>>>> * Introduce a "mode" parameter to the Velocity macro. It's a
>>>> cleaning mode.
>>>> * Implement 2 modes for now:
>>>> - the current mode where no cleaning is done
>>>> - the B2 mode as defined below (using $nl and $sp)
>>>> * Introduce a xwiki.properties config to define the default mode
>>>> (which would be B2 by default for now)
>>>>
>>>> This allows users who are already using the 2.0 syntax today to  
>>>> keep
>>>> using the current mode. It also allows us to introduce new cleaning
>>>> mode later on (such as the one Ludovic wanted).
>>>>
>>>> WDYT?
>>>>
>>>> Here's my +1
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> -Vincent
>>>>
>>>> PS: Please answer ASAP since 1.9 is supposed to be today and Thomas
>>>> will need a few hours to implement this.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Vincent Massol
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi devs,
>>>>> We need to come to a conclusion for handling New Lines(NL) and
>>>>> white spaces
>>>>> (WS) in HTML and Velocity Macro.
>>>>> If you remember from http://markmail.org/thread/mhqhxnz5twhev5se
>>>>> the current
>>>>> problem is that we cannot indent scripts since WS and NL are
>>>>> meaningful.
>>>>> I'd like to reiterate the proposal that was sent but not enough
>>>>> people voted
>>>>> on it (only Thomas did).
>>>>> A) For the HTML macro, we propose to make the following changes:
>>>>> - strip NL/WS between elements (elements that don't accept CDATA)
>>>>> - strip leading/trailing NL/WS for element content before passing
>>>>> them to
>>>>> the wiki syntax parser
>>>>> B) for the Velocity macro we have 2 choices I can think of:
>>>>> 1) strip all leading spaces for all lines (but keep NL)
>>>>> Note that this means that inside a velocity macro you wouldn't be
>>>>> able to
>>>>> have a line break with the new line starting with spaces without
>>>>> escaping
>>>>> the leading space with ~(space).
>>>>> Note also that this means we will not be able to add extra new
>>>>> lines to
>>>>> format the text nicely (since that would add new paragraphs) or
>>>>> split a
>>>>> single line into several lines for extra readability. This is the
>>>>> case today
>>>>> with the old syntax and it's a pain not to be able to aerate the
>>>>> text with
>>>>> empty lines.
>>>>> Ex:
>>>>>     some text
>>>>>     ~ next line #if (...) this goes on the same line
>>>>> #something(...) #end
>>>>>     This is a new paragraph
>>>>> In this example notice that we need the velocity #if to be on the
>>>>> same line
>>>>> since NL are significant.
>>>>> 2) strip all leading spaces for all lines + remove all NL too.
>>>>> This means we need to ensure we still have one space remaining
>>>>> between
>>>>> "words" (same as HTML).
>>>>> The user would use something like $nl and $sp to explicitely enter
>>>>> new lines
>>>>> and spaces.
>>>>> The advantage is that you control completely the formatting (no
>>>>> magic
>>>>> anymore) at the cost of a little extra work (adding the $nl where
>>>>> required).
>>>>> Basically this means the same pros/cons as when you work with HTML
>>>>> where you
>>>>> need to explicitly add <br/> when you want new lines.
>>>>> Ex:
>>>>>     some text $nl
>>>>>     $sp next line
>>>>>     #if (...)
>>>>>       this goes on the same line
>>>>>       #something(...) <-- this is also on the same line
>>>>>     #end
>>>>>     $nl $nl
>>>>>     This a new paragraph
>>>>> Note: I've aerated the text by putting extra new lines around the
>>>>> velocity
>>>>> #if to show that it would work.
>>>>> 3) Same as 1) + strip 1 NL (i.e. line breaks) and only allow
>>>>> "forced" line
>>>>> breaks with "\\".
>>>>> The exact algorithm is: if there's 1 NL remove it, if there's more
>>>>> than 1
>>>>> leave them.
>>>>> Ex:
>>>>>     some text\\
>>>>>     ~ next line
>>>>>     #if (...)
>>>>>       this goes on the same line
>>>>>       #something(...) <-- this is also on the same line
>>>>>     #end
>>>>>     This a new paragraph
>>>>> I'm +1 for A)
>>>>> For B) I think the most flexible is 2) but I'm wondering if it's
>>>>> too big a
>>>>> change for our users or not. If not 2) then 3).
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> -Vincent
>>>>>
>>>>>
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