Re: [Python-markdown-discuss] WikiLinks

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

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Ron Garret <ro...@fl...> wrote:
> I realize I'm a little late to the party, but is there a reason you
> didn't just construct an RE that matched CamelCase outside of links,
> and then run that at the very end?

Well, when the inline patterns are run, the document is an ElementTree
Object. In other works, the html markup is not part of the text - so
no that won't work. An to complicate matters, ElementTree Objects
don't keep a reference to their parent - so we can't just check the
parent.

However, I suppose there isn't any reason why someone couldn't write a
post-processor which did something like this. Although, it'll be fun
getting it to ignore codeblocks and various other edge cases. That's
the thing about CamelCase links. There's always going to be false
positives. I've gotten the sense over the years that pretty much any
serious system which has started out with them has either regretted it
or abandoned them for this reason. But, for some situations, people
like them, so if someone wants to write an extension, they are more
than welcome.


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