[Product-Developers] Transform preview

[Michael A. Smith]

Extremely alpha, consider it a PoC: http://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/collective.markitup/ 

Actually the switch to a given markup language is handled entirely by Plone (@@markup-controlpanel) and I'm doing my best not to mess with that. If you select MarkItUp as your editor you can continue to edit bare HTML, only with a WYSIWYM preview option. If you switch the type of the given document to Markdown, I'd like MarkItUp to automatically switch the preview type. I think I can do that. 

I've written a naive view at context/@@transform_preview that'll just render any Markdown you POST to it. It'll do for testing, but can I be sure it's secure? (It requires cmf.ModifyPortalContent and uses Products.PortalTransforms.) 

MarkItUp! has a packs for Markdown, Textile, ReStructuredText and other languages. Once I have figured out how to elegantly include various markups, I'll do so. 

Best wishes, 
Michael A. Smith 
Web & Digital / Academic Technologies Manager 
Nazareth College 

----- "Matt Barkau" <rmb46 at psu.edu> wrote: 
> In your case, are there possible scenarios where a user will visit a page done in HTML, and edit in Markdown? 
> If so, are you planning to do some sort of warning saying, "Some formatting may be lost."? 
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> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Matt Barkau < rmb46 at psu.edu > wrote: 
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Cool! 
> I'd love to see how this develops. Where would I follow your blog posts about this? 
> Thanks! 


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> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Michael A. Smith < msmith64 at zimbra.naz.edu > wrote: 
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I'm working on a product to integrate MarkItUp, a WYSIWYM editor, into Plone. For previewing transformations of formats like Markdown, rst, Textile, etc, it can make an AJAX request and use the server response if the server can do a barebones rendering of the transform-to-HTML. 
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> Before I write views to do that, are there pre-existing views for transforms (if not all of them, than any of the main ones)? I searched through the codebase, but didn't find anything that looked like it would do that. 
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> Best wishes, 
> Michael A. Smith 
> Web & Digital / Academic Technologies Manager 
> Nazareth College 
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> Matt Barkau 
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> Pennsylvania State University 
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