On Oct 6, 2008, at 12:17 PM, Marius Dumitru Florea wrote:

> Hi Vincent,
>
> First of all I don't know why do we need to wrap the anchor in a span
> and not put the "wikilink" class directly on the anchor.

This need comes from Laurent Lunati who said there are cases where we  
need both the span and the A to able to style the way we want. It has  
no semantic meaning.

> I see there are
> no CSS rules attached to it so I guess is has a semantic purpose.
> Furthermore, what do you think about using custom attributes on the
> anchor, like xwiki:doc="Main.WebHome"?

This will mean defining a custom DTD right? So this also makes it more  
complex for users doing copy/paste of our code. The comment solution  
seems the less intrusive for me even though not "strongly typed".

Thanks
-Vincent

> Anyway, I'll be able to detect/inset if it's either span or comment or
> custom attributes. One note though: in the case of span or comment  
> I'll
> have to take care when I'm inserting other DOM nodes so the link DOM
> fragment is taken as a unit. For instance, I shouldn't inset strong or
> em between the span and the anchor.
>
> Vincent Massol wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Since recognizing links to be xwiki links is hard (not even always
>> possible) we need to add some extra information when we render wiki
>> syntax content into XHTML (for the WYSIWYG editor for ex) so that we
>> can convert it back to wiki syntax.
>>
>> We have 2 solutions I can think of:
>>
>> 1) Using a span with a class value:
>>
>> <span class="wikilinkplaceholder wikilink"><!
>> [CDATA[Space.ExistingPage]]><a href="/xwiki/bin/view/Space/
>> ExistingPage">Space.ExistingPage</a></span>
>>
>> 2) Using a comment:
>>
>> <!-- startwikilink:Space.Existing --><span class="wikilink"><a  
>> href="/
>> xwiki/bin/view/Space/ExistingPage">Space.ExistingPage</a></span><!--
>> stopwikilink -->
>>
>> Pros and cons:
>>
>> * 2) allows not generating visible content in XHTML so that if  
>> someone
>> copy/paste our generated XHTML he won't have to add some CSS rule to
>> prevent it from being visible. BTW I'm not even sure we can find a  
>> CSS
>> rule to do that in solution 1) so we might need to have 2 spans as  
>> in:
>> <span class="startwikilink"><![CDATA[Space.ExistingPage]]></ 
>> span><span
>> class="wikilinkplaceholder wikilink"><a href="/xwiki/bin/view/Space/
>> ExistingPage">Space.ExistingPage</a></span><span  
>> class="stopwikilink"/>
>>
>> * 1) is harder to code since it requires using a SAX2 LexicalHandler,
>> which btw is not supported by all XML parsers:
>> "This is an optional extension handler for SAX2 to provide lexical
>> information about an XML document, such as comments and CDATA section
>> boundaries. XML readers are not required to recognize this handler,
>> and it is not part of core-only SAX2 distributions."
>> It also requires that I make some modifications to wikimodel since
>> wikimodel currently ignores comments.
>>
>>
>> Solution 2) seems slightly better to me but as it's quite more  
>> complex
>> to implement I'd like to be sure that it's the best solution.
>>
>> WDYT?
>>
>> Thanks
>> -Vincent
>>
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