[Docutils-users] Re: Images with Targets

[Felix W. <Fel...@gm...>]

David Goodger writes:

>     <reference refuri="url">
>         <image align="center" uri="x.png">

I noticed that all writers use special code to handle this case,
i.e. check if the reference occurs in block-level context, and
create a block-level referencing image then.

This is quite ugly, and it seems to me that we'd gain quite a bit
if we used this document structure instead::

    <image align="center" refuri="url" uri="x.png">

That way, the "reference" node appears always in inline context.
We remove the special case that "reference"s may appear in
block-level context iff they contain one image.

If many (all?) nodes can grow an id (and not only targets), then
why shouldn't we allow "refuri"/"refid"/"refname" for particular
nodes as well?

(Incidentally that's similar to HTML originally doing targets and
references only in the "a" element, then allowing targets
everywhere [using the "id" attribute], and now, in XHTML 2, it
also allows references ["href"s] everywhere.  I'm not saying we
should allow refuris for all elements, though.)

Thoughts?

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Felix Wiemann -- http://www.ososo.de/