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 Suggestions of ideas for plugins:
 
+* enable editable, non-htmlized files
+
+    Some months ago, before upgrading my wiki, I used svn to check in an XML file
+    and a companion XSL file for client-side styling. That was cool, ikiwiki
+    copied them over unchanged and the file could be linked to as `\[[foo|foo.xml]]`.
+
+    I even had the XSL produce an `Edit` link at the top, because I wanted a simple
+    way for a web user to edit the XML. But I had to hack stuff to make the edit CGI
+    not say `foo.xml is not an editable page`.
+
+    I did that in a kind of slash-and-burn way, and apparently that's the one change
+    that was uncommitted when I upgraded ikiwiki, so now it's in the same place
+    as the wikiwyg project. On the bright side, that's a chance to think about how to
+    do it better.
+
+    Any suggestions for appropriate uses of existing plugins, or the plugin API,
+    to selectively add to the set of files in the working copy that the edit CGI
+    will consider editable? --ChapmanFlack 17July2008
+
+    > It looks like 80% of the job would be accomplished by hooking `htmlize` for
+    > the `.xml` extension. That would satisfy the `pagetype` test that causes
+    > the edit CGI to say `not an editable page`. (That happens too early for a
+    > `canedit` hook.) The `htmlize` hook could just
+    > copy in to out unchanged (this is an internal wiki, I'm not thinking hard
+    > about evil XML content right now). For extra credit, an `editcontent` hook
+    > could validate the XML. (Can an `editcontent` hook signal a content error?)
+
+    > The tricky bit seems to be to register the fact that the target file should
+    > have extension `.xml` and not `.html`.  Maybe what's needed is a generalized
+    > notion of an `htmlize` hook, one that specifies its output extension as well
+    > as its input, and isn't assumed to produce html? --ChapmanFlack 17July2008
+
 * list of registered users - tricky because it sorta calls for a way to rebuild the page when a new user is registered. Might be better as a cgi?
 > At best, this could only show the users who have logged in, not all
 > permitted by the current auth plugin(s).  HTTP auth would need
 > web-server-specific code to list all users, and openid can't feasibly do so
 > at all. --[[JoshTriplett]]
 
-* [[sigs]] ?
-
-* Support [[RecentChanges]] as a regular page containing a plugin that
-  updates each time there is a change, and statically builds the recent
-  changes list. (Would this be too expensive/inflexible? There might be
-  other ways to do it as a plugin, like making all links to RecentChanges
-  link to the cgi and have the cgi render it on demand.) 
-
-  Or using an iframe
-  to inline the cgi, although firefox seems to render that nastily with
-  nested scroll bars. :-(
-> Or just link to the equivalent in the version control system, if available;
-> gitweb's shortlog or summary view would work nicely as a
-> RecentChanges. --[[JoshTriplett]]
->>Why not fork the process?  We wouldn't have to wait around for a response since we would assume the recent changes page was being generated correctly.
-
 * It would be nice to be able to have a button to show "Differences" (or 
   "Show Diff") when editing a page. Is that an option that can be enabled?
   Using a plugin?
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 * As I couldn't find another place to ask, I'll try here. I would like to install some contributed plugins, but can not find anywhere to downlod them.
 
-  > Not sure what you mean, the [[plugins/contrib]] page lists contributed plugins, and each of their pages tells where to download the plugin from.. --[[Joey]]
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+  > Not sure what you mean, the [[plugins/contrib]] page lists contributed plugins, and each of their pages tells where to download the plugin from.. --[[Joey]]
+
+* I wrote a very crude wrapper around tex4ht to render TeX files.  I hesitate to give it a contrib/plugins page in its current state, but if someone wants to play, [here](http://www.cs.unb.ca/~bremner/wiki/software/ikiwiki/tex4ht.pm) it is.--[[DavidBremner]]
+
+* Setting default values for the meta plugin in the setup file, particularly author, license, and copyright, would be useful 
+There is work in progress at 
+[[plugins/contrib/default_content_for___42__copyright__42___and___42__license__42__]]
+-- [[DavidBremner]]
+
+* Would it make sense to have a hook to set the page name?  This would solve a problem I see with 
+[[source_code_highlighting|plugins/contrib/sourcehighlight]]
+-- [[DavidBremner]]