[Trac] Re: Recursive macro replacement?

[Noah Kantrowitz]

Wenzel, Norbert wrote:

Hi,

surprise found the following:
   [[Image(example.jpg, link=http://example.org)]]

usual. That would result in the following code:
   [http://example.org [[Image(example.jpg)]] ]

and the second part as normal wiki text, which is processed by the wiki
engine. Therefore the image macro wouldn' t have to deal with links

extension writing it's own markup code. With recursive macro replacement
a chart drawing plugin might create an image, attach it to the wiki page
and replace itself with [[Image(generatedChart.png)]] and tell trac to
reparse it's result. Therefore all links would be created by only one
macro which could easily be adopted to ones needs.

I was wondering how to create linked images in a wiki page and to my I would consider it more straightforward to write links and images as That would mean the link macro would interpret the first part as a link itself. I use a trac installation with a lot of extensions and found every

--Noah

This is recursive, just in the other direction. [[Image(file.png, link=[ticket:32 The ticket])]] is quite valid. It processes the link using the wiki formatter.

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