So display will just be include context="new" if I understand this 
correctly.

include with context not-new only makes sense when it's used for 
including sheets. Now since as far as I understood, the sheet mechanism 
is deprecated (I am still to find out in which way), I think we should 
reevaluate this need in the light of that.


On 10/06/2011 02:58 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
> Hi devs,
>
> As you know in XE 3.0 we've changed the behavior for resolving local 
> links/attachments when they're included using the {{include}} macro (they're 
> now resolved against the included document instead of the including document).
>
> Now there might be some use cases (pretty rare IMO but they exist) where 
> you'd want the links to be resolved against the including document. Here's a 
> use case: you have a sheet document that references an image called image.png 
> and you want that the including document provides it (like an Abstract in 
> Java! ;)).

can be fixed indeed with velocity. So unless we keep this way of using 
document sheets, it's not such a big deal.

I really need to look at the new sheet mechanism before being able to 
have an opinion about this. If it's not needed, although it's beautiful, 
I prefer we won't do it because it involves migration.

> So we've brainstormed with Thomas and here's our proposal:
>
> * Introduce a new {{display reference="…"/}} macro. This macro will *execute* 
> the passed reference in its own context (it'll do what {{include 
> context="new"…}} was doing before). It'll be located in the new display 
> module.
> * Deprecate the "context" parameter of the {{include}} macro. The reason is 
> that calling with context=new is not an include, it's a display.
> * Add a new "resolve" parameter for the {{include}} macro with possible 
> values = "current" | "source", with a default value of "source". 
> resolve=source means that the links/attachments are resolved against the 
> source (ie the document being included). Using resolve=current means that you 
> want the links/attachments resolved against the including document.
>
> Pros:
> * Clearly separate the 2 use cases: display and include
> * Make the include macro simple (a single "resolve" parameter)
> * Use the new display module as it should be and start the direction of 
> having displayer macros for displaying all types of entities
>
> Note: In the future we'll also want to deprecate the "document" parameter of 
> the include macro in favor of a more generic "reference" parameter, which 
> will allow the macro to include other types of entities (such as an object 
> property for ex).

only if we've made up our mind and we're sure that this will be the 
'future', correct way of displaying object properties in wiki 2.0 syntax.
if there's a chance we might use another macro for that, I prefer we 
don't change things.

Thanks,
Anca

> WDYT?
>
> Here's my +1
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
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