Thomas Waldmann wrote: >> * editing a large document with MoinMoin is awkward -- we're all >> jealous of MediaWiki's "edit a single section" feature. > > Yes, that is a quite often wanted feature and we are aware of that. > > But I could hold myself back from implementing some dirty hack for this > because we'll likely have a much cleaner way in the foreseeable future: > > Bastian Blank did some parser/formatter DOM refactoring project in > summer of code 2008. This basically gives a parsed moin document some > structured representation in memory - and I think this will be a good > base for implementing section editing and similar features. > > Merging this stuff into main branch will take a while, though, because > we first need to merge the work of other SOC projects: > * FCKeditor upgrade (merge done, release as 1.8) > * WSGI refactoring (merge done, release as 1.9) > * Storage refactoring (merge + quite some related work todo, release as > 2.0) > * DOM refactoring (merge + much related work todo, release as ?.?) > >> * no concept of review/approval > > There are quite some people dealing with such stuff / thinking about > using moin in such an application. > > Pity that nobody of them managed to start a discussion/facts page about > this on the moin wiki yet.
In addition to being a long-time MoinMoin user, I have written my own wiki software (hasn't everyone written their own wiki engine at some point? ;-) I implemented section editing, and seriously, it only took about 2 hours. I always thought I should add it to MoinMoin, but never got around to it. Admittedly, it was probably in the category of what Thomas would describe as a "dirty hack", but it works fine, and could serve as a stopgap until some more comprehensive solution emerges. My wiki doesn't support WYSIWIG editing, but the algorithm should work well for most cases. (The problem would come with attributes with effects that cross section headings. In most cases, I think those would be errors anyways.) IMHO a 95% solution would still be useful here, but I don't want to work on something that would be thrown away soon. Would it be worth posting the algorithm for review/discussion? -- Tim ============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Corporation of America ============================= ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Moin-user mailing list Moin-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/moin-user
