Hi again, everyone - This is a long one, so sorry about that. I'm having a few problems with basic wiki syntax, all loosely related to slightly more advanced use. Thoughts, opinions, corrections, etc. are all welcome.
First: end-of-line and blank lines. The wiki parser appears to insert multiple meaningless <span> and <p> elements into the HTML output -- they have ids like "line-1" and "line867". This leads to ugly HTML for what should be a very simple page, and I think it comes from how blank lines are handled. I would suggest that at the very least, these should not have ids -- certainly, it would not be advisable to try to style them since they are not user-generated, so I think the ids just clutter the output. Also on this topic, some things do not work as expected -- the syntax instructions state that a definition list with multiple definitions for a single term should be constructed like this: Term:: :: definition 1 :: definition 2 :: definition 3 And this pretends to produce the desired output, but in fact the three <dd> elements are not associated with the correct <dt> element at all -- each <dd> is handled as a separate definition for a term with a blank <dt>. Semantically, this is bad... and it could also lead to CSS problems. Second: nesting wiki syntax. It appears that many types of wiki syntax don't nest. For example, consider the following: === [[userpage|User's Name]] === * [[userpage|User's Name]] * blah blah [[userpage|User's Name]]:: :: blah blah Only the middle of these three works as expected -- the other two don't parse the link. It also doesn't work to nest a definition list within an unordered list, or vice-versa: * Term 1:: :: definition * Term 2:: definition Term 1:: :: * Item 1 * Item 2 * Item 3 Term 3:: :: definition I realize that these may be slightly tricky to parse correctly, but they are trivial to construct with HTML. Which brings me to my next point... Third: delimiters for wiki syntax Is there a way to manually delimit the beginning and end of a wiki element? For example, * { Term 1:: :: definition 1 :: definition 2 :: definition 3 } * item 2 This way, everything between the curly brackets would be shoved inside the first <li> element of the <ul>. I think the structural clarity this would bring is well worth the trade-off of bracket-clutter. Thanks! Best, Chris MacMinn
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