Re: nXML and embedded code in templates

On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 2:50 AM, Dmitry Gutov <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

Oh, sorry, I did not recognize it was with you. Yes, if you can do
that then it would work. And everything you need is then already in
nXhtml.


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