Brion Vibber wrote:
>> {{Open template}} text {{Close template}} structures are IMHO a big
>> problem for any WYSIWYG editor.
>> But there's no way they are going away.
>
>
> If we determine they have to go, then we can devise ways to find and migrate
> them -- it'll be a process that takes time and a lot of helper tools, and
> it's necessary to not underplay that difficulty.
>
> But it's not an intractable problem. Essentially, anything in the format:
>
> {{start}}
> content1
> content2
> {{end}}
>
> can be rewritten something like:
>
> {{container|
> content1
> content2
> }}
It's equivalent, but uglier to type and work with. I don'think people
would resist moving to it. You also get some problems in getting some
markup because you no longer are in the first line, don't remember exactly.
> Now, it may well be feasible to actually let the table rows just sit there
> in the parse tree and coalesce them into the adjacent table during final
> HTML transformation or something, but if that's not practical to do in the
> parser & translation layers it shouldn't be impossible to migrate.
diebuche moved tables to an AST-like structure recently. I wonder if
it's still efficient enough for wikipedia, though.
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