Topic designed for use with the Extension installer. It generates a specially formatted table which is parsed by the extension finder, when retrieved with ?skin=text&contenttype=text/plain. The table is a list of extensions specifications. Each specification is enclosed in curly braces {} and defines a number of fields used by the extension installer, one per line, using the syntax key: value The useful keys are:

topic

name of the extension topic

classification

to which category does this extension belong

description

short description (usually SHORTDESCRIPTION)

compatibility

freeform text which Foswiki/TWiki version is supported, as well as notes on platform

version

the available version

For example, the BathPlugin might be defined as follows:

{ topic: BathPlugin
  description: Stop the water running out
  classification: Security
  compatibility: Foswiki 1.0
}



---
{ topic: IconPlugin
 description:  Provide semantic access to icons
 compatibility: 
 classification: 
 version: 3633 (2009-04-23) 
 release:
 image: 
 }

{ topic: TinyMCEUsabilityUpgradePlugin
 description:  Introducing better usability to the Extensions.TinyMCEPlugin with using new Link-Dialogs, Autocompletition..
 compatibility: 
 classification: Interface and Visualisation
 version: 16 Mar 2009 (V0.6) 
 release:
 image: 
 }

{ topic: ToPDFPlugin
 description:  Converts topics ( TML ) into PDF
 compatibility: 
 classification: Exporting, Printing and Publishing
 version: 31 Jan 2009 (V1.6) 
 release:
 image: 
 }