On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 13:30, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi devs,
>
> Someone on the list asked how create a link and an image pointing to a
> relative reference (that he got using one of XWiki's API since they
> all return relative URL). We currently don't have a good solution for
> this and I'd like to propose a solution.
>
> For links
> =======
>
> Make the usage of a prefix that specifies what comes next a generic
> feature. We have the following needs:
> * link to a URL
> * link to a relative path
> * link to a document
> * link to a mailto
> * link to an attachment
>
> I propose the following syntax:
>
> [[label>>prefix:value]]
>
> where prefix = one of http:, path:, doc:, mailto:, attach:
https
>
> In addition I propose that when there's no prefix or if the prefix is
> an unknown prefix then to consider that the reference is a reference
> to a document (equivalent to doc:).
>
> Pros:
> * Generic
> * Ability to add more prefixes later on (for ex ftp:)
> * Ability to have virtual wikis which have "reserved" names such as
> "doc", "http", "ftp", "mailto", etc since you can write
> [[doc:doc:Space.Page]]
> * Ability to write shorthand for documents in the text, such as: "This
> is a link doc:Space.Page"
> * Ability to reference relative paths and write stuff such as
> {{velocity}}[[label>>path:$xwiki.getURL(something)]]{{/velocity}}
>
> For images
> =========
>
> * Similar to links add the ability to add prefixes in a generic way.
> We have the following needs:
> * image where the source is at a URL
> * image where the source is at a relative path
> * image where the source is in a document
>
> I propose the following syntax:
>
> image:prefix:value
>
> where prefix = one of http:, path:, attach:
>
> Note that we already support image:http://... so the proposal here is
> simply to make it generic.
>
> In addition I propose that when there's no prefix or if the prefix is
> unknown then to consider that the image is to be found in a document
> (equivalent to attach:).
>
> Same pros as above.
>
> Here's my +1
+1
>
> WDYT?
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
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