On Apr 9, 2010, at 2:27 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
>
> On Apr 9, 2010, at 2:14 PM, Andreas Jonsson wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I prefer a solution where the end token is changed rather than
>> the content. Look at the embedded parser construction in
>> MoinMoin syntax for an example.
>>
>> I instead propose to introduce an instruction to the parser in
>> the start-tag to expect a different end token. Something like:
>>
>> {{foo #endtag:foobar}}
>> content
>> {{/foo}}
>> still content
>> {{/foobar}}
>
> Not a bad idea. It would be backward compatible too.
Forgot to mention that reason I like the idea is because the user can copy
paste its content without having to edit it.
Thanks
-Vincent
>
>> For verbatim we could use the same technique as MoinMoin, either:
>>
>> {{{{
>> content
>> }}}
>> more content
>> }}}}
>>
>> or:
>>
>> {{{arbitrarystringofalphanumerics
>> content
>> }}}
>> more content
>> arbitrarystringofalphanumerics}}}
>
> This would change our syntax since right now we can write: {{{hello}}}
>
> Your solution would loose the ability to have inline verbatim.
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Andreas Jonsson
>>
>>
>> Thomas Mortagne wrote:
>>> Hi devs,
>>>
>>> We have a limitation in the xwiki/2.0 parser related to the way macros
>>> are parsed: impossible to have the ending syntax of a macro as content
>>> of this macro.
>>>
>>> Here is the related jira issue: http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-5077
>>>
>>> A good example is: i want to have "{{/code}}" alone as the content of
>>> a code macro. That's impossible.
>>>
>>> The only way to have {{/code}} in the content is with:
>>>
>>> {{code}}
>>> {{code}}
>>> {{/code}}
>>> {{/code}}
>>>
>>> or
>>>
>>> {{code}}
>>> ~{{/code}}
>>> {{/code}}
>>>
>>> but in the first case you get "{{code}}" you did not want and in the
>>> second you get "~" you did not want.
>>>
>>> Only solution i can see is to specifically handle escaping of ending
>>> macro syntax inside macros of the same name.
>>>
>>> Here is some examples:
>>>
>>> 1)
>>>
>>> {{code}}
>>> ~{{/code}}
>>> {{/code}}
>>>
>>> would give code macro containing "{{/code}}"
>>>
>>> 2)
>>>
>>> {{code}}
>>> ~{{/somemacro}}
>>> {{/code}}
>>>
>>> would give code macro containing "~{{/somemacro}}"
>>>
>>> 3)
>>>
>>> {{code}}
>>> ~~{{/code}}
>>> {{/code}}
>>>
>>> would give code macro containing "~" followed by the text "{{/code}}"
>>>
>>> 4)
>>>
>>> {{code}}
>>> ~~~{{/code}}
>>> {{/code}}
>>>
>>> would give code macro containing "~{{/code}}"
>>>
>>> 5)
>>>
>>> Then double escaping for each level to escape:
>>>
>>> {{box}}
>>> {{box}}
>>> ~~~{{/box}}
>>> {{/box}}
>>> {{/box}}
>>>
>>> would give box macro containing a box macro containing the text
>>> "{{/box}}": the first pass change "~~~{{/box}}" into "~{{/box}}" like
>>> in example 4) and the second pass escape "{{/box}}" like in example
>>> 1).
>>>
>>> So WDYT ?
>>>
>>> Here is my +1
>
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