Re: [Phpwiki-talk] standards-compliant lists

[Gary B. <ga...@in...>]

On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Tara Star wrote:

[snip]
> I'm sure I could hack out a little function or such to do this, but it
> would probably take me a VERY long time and be VERY ugly ;)
>
> waiting for feedback :)

I've come to the conclusion that the fact that wiki marks up line by line
means that:
 - block-level markup is hard to code
 - the WikiSyntax for block-level markup is contrived and ugly.

I'm working on a prototype two-pass markup scheme that will apply
block-level markup (h[1-6], p, hr, ul, ol, dl, blockquote, pre and maybe
table), leaving lines of text which will have line level markup (i, b, a,
etc), It will hopefully eliminate all the problems in
MeatBall:SillyTextFormattingRules and, incidentally, produce well-formed
XML/XHTML. It will also mean that stuff like ''italics'' will be able to
span multiple lines.

When I turn it into code it will be a thing of beauty, I promise, but it
is all in my head at the moment. I hope to get it done by sometime this
weekend and then let you all have a look at it.

Till later then,
Gary

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