Re: nXML and embedded code in templates

Lennart Borgman <[email protected]> writes:

 > On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 2:13 AM, Dmitry Gutov <[email protected]> wrote:
 >> Like some, I'd like to be able to use nxml-mode for editing ERB
 >> templates. Or EJS and JSP, they use similar syntax.
 >>
 >> 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:
 >>
 >>
 >> 
https://github.com/purcell/emacs.d/commit/a77629d6a3130d710386e0553a1cbb640797c7e3
 >>
 >> What do you think of the goal? Should nXML be useful for these types of
 >> files? Does the patch take the right approach?
 >>
 >> --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.)

You're talking about a general goal of being able to skip arbitrary
parts of a buffer. That's hard, true. If you recall, we've discussed it
before.

But we can make the tokenizer recognize (and skip or whatever) specific
types of tags, like the patch linked above does.


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