Re: [podwiki] Re: Unifying output of POD and other markup methods

[David A. B. <Br...@ac...>]

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Thomas Linden wrote:

> Hallo,
>
> On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 10:49:47PM -1000, James H. Thompson wrote:
>> When thinking about changing the structure of the formatters,
>> and if you have any plans to someday support Transclusion -
>
> However - my current idea is: What if we completely move to the
> tree-parsing technique, also for external formatters? If every renderer

Oh, oh, oh! This exactly what I have been thinking, too! I got started 
implementing, but family life and work intruded (funny how that happens, eh?). 
I was thinking that rather than a PodWiki::Formatter->format() method, there 
would be a PodWiki::Formatter->parse() method. The parse method would return a 
tree that is then merged into the existing tree in place of the former result 
of the parse of

=begin formatter

...text...

=end

> could even render XML directly, or: we could create several output
> renderers, one for "online html" (which we are using currently in the
> Wiki), or one for "offline xml", e.g. RSS feed, or for site-backup.

Oooo, I like that idea, too!


Welcome back, Tom!

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