[Phpwiki-talk] standards-compliant lists

[Tara S. <te...@cl...>]

I can't find my way in the code to do this, but this is how nested lists=20
could be made standards-compliant.

First, this is what a nested list should look like (hope you can see the=20
tags):

<ul>
	<li>first</li>
	<li>second
		<ul>
			<li>first nested</li>
			<li>second nested</li>
		</ul></li>
	<li>third</li>
	<li>last</li>
</ul>

you can see that the inner <ul> simply needs to be inserted inside an=20
existing (closed) list item.

One way to do this would be (it's probably similar to some extent to=20
what is currently being done in 1.3):

On meeting the first * (or #), replace it with <ul><li>.
Replace the next * by </li>\n</li> (etc)

If we get two ** replace by <ul><li> (you can see that it is the same as=20
the first, so no need to treat it differently)

So basically, we need two "opening" lines:

one of the "first" or "extra" * (if there is one more than the last=20
line, of if this is the first line)

one for a "next" ** in a series.

The tricky part is the closing.

When we go "down" one level, we need to have:

</li></ul></li> (closing the nested list-item, closing the nested list,=20
closing the list-item the nested list is in.

But if we're going down to level zero, we need:

<li></ul>

I think there is some sort of counter in the current code that keeps=20
track of which level we are in?

There. I'm just posting this thinking to the list in case it can inspire=20
someone. If you see clearer than me into the existing code (which isn't=20
difficult), is there a simple way this could be implemented in it?

I'm sure I could hack out a little function or such to do this, but it=20
would probably take me a VERY long time and be VERY ugly ;)

waiting for feedback :)

Tara
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