Re: [cowiki-dev] Complete reverse parser refusal

On 07 Aug 15:37, Archie Campbell wrote:

> OK. Obviously option 1 is superior to option 2, because a pseudo-XML 
> eater is required in both options, plus option 1 involves the production 
> of strict XML, which will no doubt become useful at a later date.

Full ACK.

> 1.
> 
> Therefore, I'm going to start on a class.WikiPseudoXmlConverter.php that 
> will take legacy wiki database node data, in the old pseudo-XML format 
> and output strict XML.
> 
> <link strref="Hakan Küçükyilmaz">Contributor</link>
> 
> will become...
> 
> <link><strref><![CDATA[Hakan 
> Küçükyilmaz]]></strref><![CDATA[Contributor]]></link>

Such a conversion can be made _once_ by the installer (and its so called
"Migrator" classes). That means, that you won't need to check on each
request (read and save), whether you are working with a legacy document or
with a (new) strict one.

This seems to be a proper solution to me - and future oriented.

BTW: As I started with coWiki, PHP 5 did not support the DOM-XML by default
as it does today. Hence a rewriting of the event based XML reader/writer we
have now, to use the meanwhile build-in DOM-XML reader/writer would ease
much of the work and would be less error prone.

<http://cowiki.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=41>

regards dtg