Re: [cowiki-dev] Extension to coWiki text formatting

Actually, my thoughts on the parser are something like this:

   1. The translation from wiki-text markup to tag markup is pretty
      easy, almost just a search and replace.  To correlate errors with
      lines in the original document, attributes or tags can be added
      for line number information.
   2. The resulting document can be made into valid XML just by adding
      the necessary headers and the enclosing root node.
   3. The result can be validated with PHP's XML parser. 
   4. Since the XML parser is written in native code (presumably as
      opposed to PHP) it's probably faster than what we have now.

Translating from XML to markup should be equally easy by using the XML 
document and the XSLT processor.

I know that the TPL serves as a framework for making calls into PHP 
objects and plugins for the purpose of getting substitution text.  If we 
ever did allow some programming language other than PHP, the TPL 
processor is what would need to be extended.  For now, it's not an issue 
as all we're talking about is how to markup text that will all become 
HTML.  Right?

Paul

Daniel T. Gorski wrote:

>On 29 Mar 16:12, PAUL HANCHETT wrote:
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>>Here is a somewhat disjointed proposal for enhancing coWiki's 
>>abilities.  How can we make this better?
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>Anyway you rape the parser: be aware that every <plugin> behaves like a
>standalone PHP script that can do anything a script can do ...
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>... and get finally a valid XML result! 
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>And of course KISS.
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>regards dtg
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