XmlWiki

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A Wiki of Objects

xmlWiki is a modification of the index.php page offering new features which are all maintained from editing normal wiki articles.

• Objects can be objects stored in XML
• A permissions structure offering basic read/write control over articles with users and groups.
• PHP Functions can be created and maintained by developers and can be dynamically applied to articles before rendering.
• Articles can made to automatically publish remotely over HTTP or FTP when edits are saved.

If the browser is fully XML-capable, then requested articles can be returned as XML for the client to transform with an XSLT and render. If not, xmlWiki can transform the document before returning it to the client.

The structure of xmlWiki

The xmlWiki layer is composed of a single PHP script called xmlwiki.php which, when called directly hooks or unhooks itself from three places in the MediaWiki index.php script.

The eneral structure of the xmlwiki.php script is as follows:

Current script here, templates and transforms here.

INIT

• do admin and exit if running directly
• include geshi
• get wiki & request environment
• get article (as an object if possible)
• get user-info
• get object-specific info (perms, doc-root, doc-type)
• build env (if action=raw, env is empty)

INPUT

• deny access if !writable
• currently not doing anything else

OUTPUT

• trap MediaWiki output
• extract links (not used yet)
• apply security
• transform for raw, view, preview
• if saving, do publishing
• render output & messages

ARTICLE FUNCTIONS

• get article content
• get article type
• domificate article
• transform article

TRANSFORMS (Temp - will be separare articles)

• document transforms
• image transforms
• layout transforms
• database table transforms
• transform object to php-nav-tree
• geshi syntax highlighting

FUNCTIONS

• etxract hrefs from text
• message/log