I was just going to attempt this description, but I also +1 everything PMario just wrote.
It is very important to understand that the internal structure is a series of parsed trees: *TW wikitext -> Parse Tree (AST) -> Widget Tree -> HTML* I think a visual depiction of this would be incredibly useful for the community. Even the Parse-tree for a single tiddler in the Story List is very complex nested code, so even a micro-example of say, a $list with simple links to 3 other tiddlers (one of which has a `caption` field) would be a long example. Best, Joshua F On Tuesday, May 12, 2020 at 7:16:09 AM UTC-7, Saq Imtiaz wrote: > > +1 for everything P Mario said. > > On Tuesday, May 12, 2020 at 4:13:04 PM UTC+2, PMario wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Referring to my last post, I do think, the parser isn't the right place >> to do stuff like this, because the parser does something completely >> different. >> >> TW parser converts wiki text syntax into a so called AST Abstract Syntax >> Tree <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_syntax_tree>, which is an >> internal structure, that is kept in core memory only and is not available >> for end users. >> >> It is available for plugin authors. The flow is like this >> >> TW wikitext -> Parse Tree (AST) -> Widget Tree -> HTML >> >> What you want is: TW wikitext -> AST -> TW wikitext >> >> So the AST could be modified and "*partially*" converted back to >> wikitext. ... BUT... since TW AST doesn't contain text structure info eg: >> info about white-text (spaces / line-breaks) and comments it would be a >> rewrite of the tiddler source. ... So you will loose information. >> >> If you want to learn, how to modify TW wikitext, that way, without >> breaking it you'll need to understand how the relink-pluign >> <https://github.com/flibbles/tw5-relink> works. ... Be aware this plugin >> is highly sophisticated and has been a lot of work! So you'll need to be >> prepared to "dig down the rabbit-hole", which needs some time! >> >> *That's an other way to do it ;)* >> >> have fun! >> mario >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/4ca0211e-e673-481e-ac24-b9ca455d5d24%40googlegroups.com.
