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6	6	1 Wiki Macro Tutorial
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8	8	Wiki macros allow macro authors to develop reusable and distributable macro modules. There is no java code involved; hence no compiling or packaging. Macro author simply needs to create a wiki page according to a particular specification and that's all!
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10	10	1.1 Prerequisites
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13	13	* Wiki macro authors need to have programming rights
14	14	* Wiki macros can only be defined inside the main wiki, though they can be used throughout a farm
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16		-1.1 Hello World Macro
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18	18	We are going to start with a very simple xwiki/2.0 wiki macro which prints a greeting message to the document content. It isn't a very useful macro but the idea is to get you familiarised with the wiki macro creation process.
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26	26	* Macro description: A short description of the macro, this description will be made available on the WYSIWYG editor (More on this later)
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28		-* Macro content: The actual wiki content that will be evaluated when the macro is executed, can be any wiki content (should be in the same syntax as the document)
	30	+* Macro code: The actual wiki code that will be evaluated when the macro is executed, can be any xwiki content (should be in the same syntax as the document)
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30		-Now we can define our hello world wiki macro as shown below:
	32	+Now we can define our hello macro as shown below:
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32	32	{image:macro1.png}
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34		-1.1.1 Wiki Macro Invocation
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36	36	A wiki macro can be invoked just as any other macro is invoked. Since we are writing a xwiki/2.0 wiki macro, we can invoke our hello world macro as below:
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