On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 7:19 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jean, > > On 20 Aug 2015 at 09:34:22, Jean SIMARD > ([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote: > >> Hi devs, >> >> Lately, I've been working on some sort of new format to import >> information in XWiki [1] (I'm not that comfortable with editing XAR >> format with my text editor). You'll find an example of this format in >> the testing procedure of my module [2]. To create this format, I used >> the XML Schema described in the REST API of XWiki [3]. To code the >> importer, I've used the filter module [4]. I've also create a REST >> service in order to import through REST (using filters) [5]. > > This topic is an old one: we’ve been wanting to have an easy file system > format for xwiki pages for a long time, in order to make it easier to edit > content (editing XWiki XML format is not very easy to say the least, > especially for attachments for example!). > > So it’s cool that you started working on this and using the Filter Module is > great! > > I guess we should rework the import/export pages in the future to allow using > any Filter implementation (import from XAR, import from another wiki, etc). > This would also allow extensions to contribute new formats too. > > FTR there have been several experiments in the past too: > > * Fabio had started something similar here: > http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/DirectoryStructureforXWikiApplications > (it links to https://github.com/fmancinelli/xwikifs) > * I know Caleb also did something in javascript but I don’t have a link. > >> I'd like that project be a part of xwiki-contrib. At the moment, I've >> called it 'api-xwf'. Maybe 'api-xwiki-format' would be more self >> explicit. If you'd prefer something else, please let me know. > > It would be great if you could find a more specific name since there could be > several xwiki page formats. “api-xfs” for example, where XFS would stand for > XWiki FileSystem Format.
Same here, I'm not a big fan of calling this "the XWiki format" since there is various XWiki formats for various use case so it does not mean anything and right now it's a contribution and not some official format anyway. > > Thanks > -Vincent > >> Thanks, >> >> [1] https://github.com/woshilapin/api-xwf >> [2] >> https://github.com/woshilapin/api-xwf/tree/master/xwf-filter-stream/src/test/resources/packagefile/xwf/xwiki >> [3] >> https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/blob/master/xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-rest/xwiki-platform-rest-model/src/main/resources/xwiki.rest.model.xsd >> [4] http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Filter+Module >> [5] https://github.com/woshilapin/api-xwf/tree/master/xwf-rest-api >> -- >> Jean Simard >> [email protected] >> Research engineer at XWiki SAS >> http://www.xwiki.com >> Committer on the XWiki.org project >> http://www.xwiki.org > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
