Re: [Webmacro-devel] Bug? Looks and smells like it...

[Keats K. <ke...@xa...>]

This is not a bug, but a documented design decision.

A directive must be preceded by whitespace or a newline.  This was done 
to make it less likely that text would get mistaken for a directive.  
Specifically in your case the parser could could confuse colors like 
"#FFCC44" with directives.

I admit it's not pretty, but I think we can live with it.

Keats

Marc Palmer wrote:

>Guys, forgive me if I am raking over the past because I feel some deja vu
>here... but why can't I invoke a macro inline? 
>
><a href="#springURL("addperm.html")">Add permissions</a>
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>This fails, the resulting HTML is, rather oddly:
>
><a href="#springURL("addperm.html)>Add permissions</a>
>
>Putting in a bit of whitespace solves it:
>
><a href=" #springURL("addperm.html")">Add permissions</a>
>
>...which is hella-ugly. Can I submit a unit test for this and can someone
>look at the parser, if it's not me being "stupid"? It certainly seems
>completely nonsensical to the end-user...
>
>I would strongly recommend we fix this and put out an RC2. I would say the
>Java 5 compatibility issue with JavaCC's generated code is a release
>stopper too - but should be easy to fix.
>
>Cheers
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