Hi Evan I think that this ancient ticket might be roughly equivalent to what you’re after:
https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/345 <https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/345> The proposal still reflects my thinking in this area. Best wishes Jeremy. > On 12 Jan 2018, at 04:58, Evan Balster <balster.e...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey, all — > > Currently TiddlyWiki implements plain-text wikification by applying WikiText > parsing to generate a DOM, then extracting and concatenating any text-widgets > in the DOM while discarding everything else. While this functionality is > very useful, it has some tricky drawbacks — wikification involves (often) > unnecessary work processing irrelevant parse rules, and anything resembling > an <element> or //wikitext markup will be stripped out, when this might be > very undesirable (eg, when encountering JavaScript or C++ comments). > > I'd like to propose an alternative mode where only those parse rules which > are applicable to plaintext are considered — that is, widgets, transclusions > (including lists), variables and a few other items. That way, we can write > things like this (a method stub generator): > > <$list variable=class filter="[tag[Class]]"> > <$list filter="[tag[Method][tag<class>]]"> > // {{!!summary}} > {{!!return_type}} {{!!name}}({{!!parameters}}) { > } > > </$list> > </$list> > > I'd like to propose, further, that this functionality be available for > attributes. This will eliminate several situations where it's necessary to > use macros or $wikify, replacing these mechanisms with a more efficient, > briefer, pre-parsable expression. As noted by Jeremy, one of the most common > user mistakes involves expecting wiki syntax inside quoted strings (or > imported via macro/transclusion) to work in an attribute... Things like > title="my name is {{!!name}}". I see very few reasons (aside from > compatibility) why they shouldn't work as expected! > > A conservative approach could mandate a double-equals syntax or an > alternative quotation style for wikified attributes: > > <div style=="size: {{!!size}}px;"> > > ...Though if I'm to be honest I would prefer to see all attributes parsed by > default with an alternative syntax for "direct" values. Perhaps I'm too > radical. :) > > I don't think wikification needs to change much to implement this — another > parse mode, with a smaller ruleset. The tricker part of the implementation > is getting widgets to parse imported text according to the proper rules. To > that end, I suggest that the namespace variable could be used to determine > parsing behavior for imported text. In the future this might also be > leveraged to keep inappropriate elements out of <math> and <svg> namespaces... > > > With these changes, I believe TiddlyWiki's logic would become more powerful > and, crucially, more consistent, helping newcomers to learn it with fewer > "gotchas" and making it simpler for experts like me to build complicated > constructs. I also think it's an essential piece of the puzzle for evolving > TiddlyWiki beyond macro dependency. > > Interested to hear others' thoughts. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWikiDev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tiddlywikidev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:tiddlywikidev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to tiddlywikidev@googlegroups.com > <mailto:tiddlywikidev@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev > <https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywikidev/7e867e78-da41-466a-b9ab-754439100af2%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywikidev/7e867e78-da41-466a-b9ab-754439100af2%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywikidev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywikidev@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywikidev/6255944F-3695-40B0-9E48-829C3D5A3282%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
