Re: [PHP Template] Recursive hide behavior

On Wed, 01 Mar 2000, Dan Libby wrote:
> From a syntax perspective, 3 & 4 should be identical, so long as both have unique
> ids.  1 & 2 are nice to have, but not strictly necessary, since all
> variables/sections could be explicitly listed.  For completeness, none should also
> be an option, even though it is the default.  (HTML usually works that way)
> 
> So I would see the syntax as looking like:
> 
> autohide="all" or
> autohide="sections" or
> autohide="vars" or
> autohide="$section1" or
> autohide="$section1,$var1" or
> autohide="sections,$var1" or
> autohide="vars,$section1"

Well, I don't think we should put $ in front of sections... They are not
really variables. We'd have to do something like:

autohide=#vars,section1

But #vars is not really a variable. Hmm, maybe

autohide=<variables>/<sections>, some examples:

autohide=all
autohide=vars/section1
autohide=$var1,$var2/sections

Or use ':' instead of '/', and use '/' for referring to section
variables like $section1/foo. Sort of like a 'path' to a variable.

> An alternative syntax that may be easier to parse is to have multiple autohide
> statements, eg:
> 
> {{section:foo autohide="section1" autohide="$var1"}}

I thought about this, but then what if you have autohide="$var1"
autohide="all"? Ambiguity land.

BTW, I was thinking we'd use " only for constant strings, not to
delimiter attribute values.

-Andrei

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