> -----Original Message----- > From: wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org > [mailto:wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of > Dmitriy Sintsov > Sent: 25 September 2009 11:09 > To: Wikimedia developers > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal for editing template calls > within pages > > * Jared Williams <jared.willia...@ntlworld.com> [Fri, 25 Sep 2009 > 10:49:54 +0100]: > > > > The problem is the ambiguity with italics, (''italics''). So the > > current parser doesn't really make its final decision on > what should > > be bold or what should be italic until it hits a newline. > If there are > > an even number of both bold and italics then it assumes it > interpreted > > the line correctly. > > > > However if there is an uneven number of bold & italic, it starts > > searching for where it could have misinterpreted something. > > > Shouldn't these cases be considered a syntax error? How much > is common to wikipedia to have uneven numbers of occurences > of that? Is there any use for that (weird templates)? > > > I think this is part of what makes wikitext undescribable > in a formal > > grammar. > > > > Jared > > > Let's assume an odd occurence of ''' will be converted to > <wmf:bold> and an even occurence ''' to </wmf:bold> > (begin/end of the node)? Non-paired occurence will simply > cause XML parsing error - there should not be uneven number > of '' or '''. > Dmitriy >
Problem is quotes are also valid as part of the textual content, so could not italics immediately before or after an apostrophe. As in L'''arc de triomphe'' Which the current parser resolves to L'<i>arc de triomphe</i> Jared _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
