On 12 juin 08, at 10:48, Vincent Massol wrote:
> Hi Venkatesh,
>
> On Jun 12, 2008, at 10:40 AM, Venkatesh Nandakumar wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>> 1. Syntax Highlighting, to a large extent, though there have been
>> problems, as pointed out by Malaka, *bold~~combined~~bold* doesn't
>> give
>> the required effect, and secondly, the complex use of '*' in the wiki
>> syntax makes it a bit difficult to differentiate between actual
>> *bold*
>> usage versus listing uses, maybe we would have to create own custom
>> regex-based rules for it later. For other tags, its been simple and
>> straightforward.
>
> Do you really need to parse it yourself? We have a parser in charge
> of doing this so you don't have to care at all about these problems.
> That's unless the system you use for syntax highlighting uses regexs
> (in which case I think it should be changed).
>
This is something related to the Eclipse text-infrastructure which
uses its own techniques for identifying text elements, and the way it
does is a way that it is not the standard way. The basic framework
provides some "rules" that are used for chopping the text into
partitions that are assigned a given type.
For example, XML comments can be processed by using:
new MultiLineRule("<!--", "-->", "XML_COMMENT_PARTITION"); that
basically associates everything between <!-- and --> to the type
"XML_COMMENT_PARTITION".
I think that in principle a "standard parser" output can be integrated
into this framework, but this has to be investigated because it might
not be so simple.
As I said in a previous mail, Malaka might try to think about it as
the next step of his project.
For sure this would be nice because we would use a single
"authoritative" parser.
WDYT?
Cheers,
Fabio
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