No problems, I completely understand :) Looking forward to the new version Cheers James
Vincent Massol wrote: > Hi James, > > This is probably because of our "flaky" WYSIWYG editor. In the version > you have it's escaping the special characters as xml entities thus > making the URL fail... This is a known bug and we're working hard on a > brand new WYSIWYG editor based on GWT that will not have all the > deficiencies of the current editor. Right now all I can suggest is to > not use the WYSIWYG editor and use the wiki editor one as much as > possible. I know it's a good answer but we're a bit stuck, whenever we > make changes to the current editor it breaks it in other places; it's > really too hard to maintain (hence our decisions to rewrite it - a > first version should be out in September). > > Sorry about that. > > Thanks > -Vincent > > On Jul 1, 2008, at 3:57 PM, James Weir wrote: > > >> That seems to work now. >> interesting though, when I add an http URL the first time it works >> fine; >> however if I re-edit the page then the httpURL gets interpreted by the >> Wiki and corrupts the link, for example >> >> if I add this: >> #video('http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5yyb9_sarkozy-en-off-sur-france-3_news') >> >> save the page and then later I re-edit the page the http link is >> saved as: >> #video('http://www.dailymotion.com/video/ >> x5yyb9_sarkozy-en-off-sur-france-3_news') >> >> >> and an error is thrown: >> >> Error number 4001 in 4: Error while parsing velocity page >> Tutorials.SAFTutorialBuild >> Wrapped Exception: Failed to evaluate content with id SAFTutorial >> Build >> <http://demo.usharesoft.com:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Tutorials/SAFTutorialBuild >> >> com.xpn.xwiki.XWikiException: Error number 4001 in 4: Error while >> parsing velocity page Tutorials.SAFTutorialBuild >> Wrapped Exception: Failed to evaluate content with id SAFTutorial >> Build >> <http://demo.usharesoft.com:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Tutorials/SAFTutorialBuild >> >> at >> com >> .xpn >> .xwiki >> .render.XWikiVelocityRenderer.evaluate(XWikiVelocityRenderer.java:231) >> at >> com >> .xpn >> .xwiki >> .render.XWikiVelocityRenderer.render(XWikiVelocityRenderer.java:93) >> at >> com >> .xpn >> .xwiki >> .render >> .DefaultXWikiRenderingEngine >> .renderText(DefaultXWikiRenderingEngine.java:252) >> at >> com >> .xpn >> .xwiki >> .render >> .DefaultXWikiRenderingEngine >> .renderText(DefaultXWikiRenderingEngine.java:176) >> at >> com >> .xpn >> .xwiki >> .render >> .DefaultXWikiRenderingEngine >> .renderText(DefaultXWikiRenderingEngine.java:145) >> at >> com >> .xpn >> .xwiki >> .render >> .DefaultXWikiRenderingEngine >> .renderDocument(DefaultXWikiRenderingEngine.java:134) >> at >> com >> .xpn.xwiki.doc.XWikiDocument.getRenderedContent(XWikiDocument.java: >> 423) >> at com.xpn.xwiki.api.Document.getRenderedContent(Document.java:371) >> at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor328.invoke(Unknown Source) >> at >> sun >> .reflect >> .DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl >> .invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) >> >> ... partial exception, the rest has been removed >> >> >> at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) >> >> >> I know there is a notion of {pre} that stops xwiki interpeting parts >> of >> the page to stop this, however I was suprised that xwiki did this in a >> macro. How can I stop this happening ? >> >> I have a more generic question; if you wish to use a widget in html as >> part of the wiki, what is the best way to go about this ? Do you have >> to create your own Macro ? or is there a way to tell xWkki to parse a >> block as html ? >> >> Thanks >> James >> >> >> Vincent Massol wrote: >> >>> Hi James, >>> >>> The person who wrote the installation tutorial was wrong. The way it >>> was described doesn't work. >>> I've updated the instructions. >>> See http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Macros/VideoMacroDownloads >>> >>> Thanks >>> -Vincent >>> >>> On Jul 1, 2008, at 12:05 PM, James Weir wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I have been trying to use the video macro [1] without much success. >>>> >>>> I followed the instructions to upload and import the xar file into >>>> my >>>> xwiki. The import was successful. >>>> >>>> I then add the macro into the Velocity macros: >>>> Administration: >>>> Preferences->Advanced->Velocity Macro Pages I added: >>>> Marcos.Video, >>>> >>>> I was then hoping to embed a video into my xwiki. Unfortunately >>>> all I >>>> see is the text of the macro rather than the video, For example: >>>> >>>> #video('http://www.youtube.com/v/NEV2TnDUA-E&hl=en'); >>>> >>>> Any ideas on why this is not working ? >>>> Thanks >>>> James >>>> > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > users@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users