2007/1/5, Ka-Ping Yee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Talin wrote: > > One issue that needs to be worked out, however, is the division of > > responsibility between markup processor and output formatter. Does a > > __markup__ plugin do both jobs, or does it just do parsing, and leave > > the formatting of output to the appropriate HTML / text output module? > > How does the HTML output module know how to handle non-standard metadata? > [...] > > I guess the markup processor has to deliver some kind of DOM tree, which > > can be rendered either into text or into HTML. CSS can take over from > > that point on. > > If the markup processor is going to deliver a tree, let me just point > out that it would be a pretty major project to define the format of > that tree -- about as large as inventing ReST or any other markup > language, except that the design of such an intermediate format has > to foresee future changes to the input and be flexible enough to target > multiple output formats. The design would also have to tackle the > question of whether the intermediate format should contain semantic > information (what about cross-references?) and what types of such > information should be allowed (e.g. names of modules, arguments, > exceptions, Python expressions, etc.) >
Wouldn't it be conceivable to have the processing of the markup performed by a separate function, that could eventually be overridden/passed as a parameter when specific needs regarding the markup are needed ? L. > -- ?!ng > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/lgautier%40gmail.com > _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
