On Nov 25, 2008, at 5:57 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
> Hi Lewis,
>
> On Nov 25, 2008, at 5:39 PM, Lewis Denizen wrote:
>
>> Hi xwiki-users,
>>
>> I have a question (or more of a request) regarding the upcoming
>> Pygments
>> support in XWiki 1.7. We currently use XWiki at work to keep an
>> internal
>> documentation wiki for our application. We've created a few plugins
>> which
>> we've used in the following fashion perfectly (XWiki 1.0 syntax):
>>
>> {code:sql}
>> DECLARE myDate DATETIME
>>
>> SELECT myDate = '$xwiki.dateParser.parseDate( "-1b", "yyyyMMdd" )'
>> -- this
>> gives us the previous business date in yyyyMMdd format
>> ...
>> {code}
>>
>> Vincent kindly gave me a heads up regarding XWiki 1.7's Pygments
>> support
>> (seems to be supported by running it under Jython - VERY exciting :-
>> D). So,
>> I was wondering... Would something like the above be supported (i.e.
>> verbatim code, but allow velocity macros to be run inside the code
>> block)?
>
> Sure. You'd write:
>
> {{velocity}}{{code language="sql"}}
> DECLARE myDate DATETIME
>
> SELECT myDate = '$xwiki.dateParser.parseDate( "-1b", "yyyyMMdd" )' --
> this
> gives us the previous business date in yyyyMMdd format
> ...
> {{/code}}{{/velocity}}
Actually even better the code macro automatically guesses the language
if you don't pass it! :)
-Vincent
>> If not, are there any documentation out there (other than the source
>> code)
>> detailing steps to create an XWiki macro (found
>> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Drafts/Tutorial+to+Write+a+Macro+in+the+new+rendering+enginewhich
>> does help a bit if viewed in the code viewer), so that maybe we can
>> build in support for something like that? Again, thanks for the
>> great work!
>
> We don't have a tutorial for writing macros yet but that'll come.
> Anyone interested to help is welcome to work on this. That'd help a
> lot. Currently the easiest way to learn how to write a macro is to
> check out xwiki source tree and look at how the current macros are
> implemented.
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
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