Another little feature, is the table row token is the regexp |-+
So
{|
|-------------------------
| foo
|}
{|
|-
| food
|}
are equivalent
Jared
> -----Original Message-----
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> Steve Bennett
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> Subject: Re: [Wikitext-l] So, the hardest wikitext construct to parse?
>
> On 2/4/08, Jared Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Have you also noticed the evil trim() in doTableStuff() ?
> > Right before it starts to parse the line. Means have to
> lookahead if a
> > line starts with whitespace or NUL.
>
> Ouch, that's almost obnoxious. I just tried it, and sure
> enough, this kind of thing works:
>
> {|
> |-
> | fooooo
> |}
>
>
> This looks like an example where being too permissive is
> actually harmful. There's no real benefit in being able to
> left-indent the table and no one does it.
>
> Another interesting aspect of table parsing that I've noticed
> is that malformed tables often disappear, rather than being
> rendered literally. I think we decided that a replacement
> parser doesn't have to mimic the current one on malformed
> input but there are still issues to consider...
>
> Steve
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