Le 30 juil. 2006 à 18:50, A. Pagaltzis a écrit :
I recognize that md5 hashes are somewhat overkill for this
process. In fact, any alphanumeric string which isn't present
in the input text is suitable for "tokens".
If “isn’t present in the input text” were easy, I’m pretty sure
John would have done that. But it’s not. Using MD5 hashes means
the chance that there’ll be a conflict remains present, but is so
extremely slim as to be dismissible.
It's not as hard at it seems. For instance, you could check at the
beginning for the longest sequence of consecutive "x"s in the input,
then make your pseudo-tokens always begin with the same string but
with one more "x".
This is far from having a formal grammar, but it shows that a
lot more could be done by reusing the current approach.
I guess if all you want to do is implement the exact purpose
of Markdown.pl, ie converting a Markdown document to an HTML
fragment, then that is true.
Now that I'm rereading myself, I said *a lot more* in the sense that
more could be done regarding the nested element problem than what
Markdown does right now, not about other things other approaches
could achieve. But I admit I wasent clear. Surely different
implementations will be better at different things.
Michel Fortin
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