Re: [Python-markdown-discuss] GSoC ElementTree support

[Waylan L. <wa...@gm...>]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Yuri Takhteyev <qar...@gm...> wrote:
>> Is this still true if you have inline not-necessarily-legal-XML blocks?
>> (i.e. will it still be easy to convert:
>> **Foo**
>> <br>
>> blah blah blah
>> 'bar'
>> ?)
>
> I meant a simple RE-based substitution.  Correct me if I am wrong, but
> converting XHTML into HTML largely involves changing <$x/> and
> <$x></$x> to to <$x>  for certain values of $x.

Yeah, that *should* cover the basics. Of course, anyone could always
pass Markdown's output into uTidylib [1] or ElementTree Tidy [2] if
they want a solid conversion. Unfortunately, it will likely slow
things down to much to offer that option in Markdown directly.
However, it may not be a bad idea to have an extension for those who
want it.

Hmm, now to get back on-subject - I wonder if either of those tools
will do whitespace normalization only, without making any other
changes to the output. It's worth exploring for the tests.

[1]: http://utidylib.berlios.de/
[2]: http://effbot.org/zone/element-tidylib.htm

>
>> What if we went with the BOM character (oxFEFF) as the replacement? It's
>> legal unicode, and _extremely_ unlikely to occur in the middle of text.  The
>> only thing to watch out for is having it occur at the start of the file.
>
> First, my original intention was to use not \u0001 and \u0002 but
> rather \u0002 and \u0003 - "start of text" (STX) and "end of text"
> (ETX).  The nice thing about them is that they come as a pair - start
> and end.  Also, if we use BOM we'll have to worry about HTML, etc.
> occuring in the beginning of the text.  But this is an option to keep
> in mind.  Alternatively, we can look into the private ranges, though
> then we have to make sure that our use does not conflict with possible
> private uses by the caller.
>
> - yuri
>
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