Re: nXML and embedded code in templates

On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 2:13 AM, Dmitry Gutov <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi all!
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> Like some, I'd like to be able to use nxml-mode for editing ERB
> templates. Or EJS and JSP, they use similar syntax.
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> sgml-mode in Emacs already tries to recognize this type of tags, and
> here's a few years old patch for xmltok.el that does something similar:
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> https://github.com/purcell/emacs.d/commit/a77629d6a3130d710386e0553a1cbb640797c7e3
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> What do you think of the goal? Should nXML be useful for these types of
> files? Does the patch take the right approach?
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> --Dmitry

I like the goal, but unfortunately you can not reach it currently. I
have tried this in nXhtml if you are interested.

The problem is that nXML parses the buffer using primitives that you
can not restrict to a part of the buffer. I have suggested that the
primitives in Emacs should be changed to make such a restriction
possible, but that is a very difficult job on very low level in Emacs.
(You have to know quite a bit about how buffers are stored and handled
etc.)


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