Brion Vibber wrote:
> A bigger deal will probably be actually changing structures that don't
> render consistently, and that'll depend on how brave we are changing nested
> template & table structures to fit a hierarchical document model.
>
> We've basically got two levels of stuff:
>
> * parsing wiki markup into a document structure that's useful for editing
> * using the document structure to render HTML output or an editing
> environment
>
> Our classic MediaWiki parser does only a tiny bit of the first in the
> preprocessor, and then leaves a lot more of our markup to the transformation
> layer, which is how we end up with things like templates that expand into an
> HTML tag opener, of which which some adjacent templates contain the contents
> and endings.
>
>
> If we can devise a way to consistently treat expansions that *aren't* a
> hierarchical match fro the HTML node tree, then we might not have to change
> templates much. If we can't, then we might have to start enforcing
> hierarchical template & other code nesting and go through and migrate a
> bunch of existing templates.
>
> -- brion
{{Open template}} text {{Close template}} structures are IMHO a big
problem for any WYSIWYG editor.
But there's no way they are going away.
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