On 11-05-02 03:32 PM, Platonides wrote:
> Brion Vibber wrote:
>> A bigger deal will probably be actually changing structures that don't
>> render consistently, and that'll depend on how brave we are changing nested
>> template & table structures to fit a hierarchical document model.
>>
>> We've basically got two levels of stuff:
>>
>> * parsing wiki markup into a document structure that's useful for editing
>> * using the document structure to render HTML output or an editing
>> environment
>>
>> Our classic MediaWiki parser does only a tiny bit of the first in the
>> preprocessor, and then leaves a lot more of our markup to the transformation
>> layer, which is how we end up with things like templates that expand into an
>> HTML tag opener, of which which some adjacent templates contain the contents
>> and endings.
>>
>>
>> If we can devise a way to consistently treat expansions that *aren't* a
>> hierarchical match fro the HTML node tree, then we might not have to change
>> templates much. If we can't, then we might have to start enforcing
>> hierarchical template & other code nesting and go through and migrate a
>> bunch of existing templates.
>>
>> -- brion
> {{Open template}} text {{Close template}} structures are IMHO a big
> problem for any WYSIWYG editor.
> But there's no way they are going away.
Sure they will... ;) if we have loop functions.*snicker* ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
