On Jul 1, 2008, at 4:33 PM, James Weir wrote:

> No problems,
> I completely understand :)

thanks for your understanding... see below for a typo I made...

> 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
                                     ^^^^^^^^^
I meant "I know it's NOT a good answer" of course ;)

Thanks
-Vincent

>>
>> 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
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