Re: Access to unprocessed file content

Robert Leftwich wrote:

> I am looking at adding thru-the-web editing support to a PyBlosxom 
> install and would like to be able to access the raw, unparsed file 
> content to populate a text area. A quick look at the source didn't 
> highlight a way to do this, have I missed something or is this not 
> possible?

Are you going to do the wikieditish type of plugin? If yes, then 
something like this is actually possible, but it involves updating every 
entryparser plugins and the default entryparser (for .txt files) to read 
everything and dump it to a $raw_text. Not difficult to do. And for 
those entryparsers what gets data from word documents for example, 
should not produce $raw_text at all for very very obvious reasons :) So 
this plugin, must be $raw_text aware (or the lack of it).

This is a feature that involves modifying at least 5 plugins and the 
main pyblosxom.py (I forsee at least 2 lines per mod), if you are up to 
it, you could send me a patch and I'd should be able to release it in 
0.8, else if you want me to do it, it'd be in the next version (0.9++).

FYI, $raw_text (or something similar to that) is available in blosxom 
2.0, and IMO, it's a worthwhile feature to have.



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