Krinkle wrote:
> So PHP would extract {{#author:4}} and {{#license:12}} from the
> textblob when showing the editpage.
> And show the remaining wikitext in the <textarea> and the author/
> license as seperate form elements.
> And upon saving, generate "{{#author:4}} {{#license:12}}\n" again and
> prepend to the textblob.
>
> Double instances of these would be ignored (ie. stripped automatically
> since they're not re-inserted to
> the textblob upon saving).
> One small downside would be that if someone would edit the textarea
> manually to do stuff with
> author and license, the next edit would re-arrange them since they're
> extracted and re-insterted
> thus showing messy diffs. (not a major point as long as it's done
> independant from JavaScript,
> which it can be if done from core / php).
>
> If that's what you meant, I think it is an interesting concept that
> should not be ignored, however personally
> I am not yet convinced this is the way to go. But when looking at the
> complete picture of up/down sides,
> this could be something to consider.
>
> --
> Krinkle
That's an alternative approach. I was thinking in accepting them only at
the beginning of the page, but extracting from everywhere is also an
alternative.
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