Re: Anyone want to beta test JSPWiki Tag plugin?

This seems to be just what I need :-) Thx

>>You just need to drop a couple ceryle-wikiutil jars into your JSPWiki
lib.
And easy too!!

I'll give you my feedback asap...

On 8/29/07, Murray Altheim <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Volkar, John M. wrote:
> > Claudia,
> >
> > You just need to drop a couple ceryle-wikiutil jars into your JSPWiki
> > lib.  Ceryle is a separate thing that embeds JSPWiki inside of it.  But
> > the functions and features that Ceryle adds to JSPWiki are done as
> > plain-vanilla JSPWiki plugins.  Murray quite nicely does this so we can
> > all benefit from Ceryles work.
> >
> > I honestly haven't had time to look at any of this, I glanced at the Tag
> > related code that Murray sent me, but nothing more.  He can get you a
> > distro if it's not downloadable from his Ceryle wiki site.
> >
> > Regards,
> > John Volkar
>
> Thanks John. 99% correct. The entire catalog of CeryleWikiPlugins is
> getting quite lengthy:
>
>     http://purl.org/ceryle/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=CeryleWikiPluginCatalog
>
> Actually, the tag features are not in the same distribution as the
> CeryleWikiPlugins, they're in their own. I've just updated the site
> and have just now uploaded a new version that adds two new features
> to the TagCloudPlugin: the ability to percentage-scale the font size,
> and an option for the tags to link to their respective tag pages or
> to search results. This is the first publicly-available distribution;
> binary now, code will come later. See
>
>     http://purl.org/ceryle/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=InstallingWikiTags
>
> for downloading information and installation details. If you have
> any problems installing let me know so I can update the wiki page
> documentation.  I'm just in the middle of switching ISPs so please
> have patience if things are not available periodically.
>
> ----
>
> There are three plugins included: the TagPlugin (aka 'Tag') to
> declare tags, the HasTagOfPlugin (aka 'HasTagOf') to query tags,
> and the TagCloudPlugin (aka 'TagCloud') to display them (including
> lists, etc.).
>
> One thing to note is that there was a design decision to require
> that tags actually point to wiki pages. This was done so that
> each tag has documentation. There's a compile-time flag called
> REQUIRE_PAGE_FOR_TAG to let tags succeed but display an error
> message. It is by default true (i.e., requiring pages).
>
> One of the nice things about the tag package is that the HasTagOf
> plugin incorporates the query features developed by John in the
> original QueryPlugin, so that you can query on tags using AND, OR,
> and NOT, e.g.,
>
>     [{HasTagOf (( tagname1 AND tagname2 )
>              OR ( tagname3 NOT tagname4 ) }]
>
> Secondly, while this won't be useful for people right now, the
> tag feature integrates with the upcoming assertion framework, so
> that currently one declares a set of page tags. Using the same
> syntax this will in the future declares those tags as full wiki
> assertions, e.g. (assuming we're on the BurtReynolds page):
>
>     [{Tag Actor}]
>
> will actually be the same as asserting the (subject, predicate,
> object) triple:
>
>     [{Assert [BurtReynolds] HasTag [Actor] }]
>
> all this in the future though... for now we have tags!
>
> Compatible with JSPWiki 2.4.102 and newer.
>
> Murray
>
>
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