Re: [xwiki-devs] Ending macro syntax as macro content

Hi, I prefer a solution where the end token is changed rather than the content. Look at the embedded parser construction in MoinMoin syntax for an example. I instead propose to introduce an instruction to the parser in the start-tag to expect a different end token. Something like: {{foo #endtag:foobar}} content {{/foo}} still content {{/foobar}}

For verbatim we could use the same technique as MoinMoin, either: {{{{ content }}} more content }}}} or: {{{arbitrarystringofalphanumerics content }}} more content arbitrarystringofalphanumerics}}}

Best regards, Andreas Jonsson Thomas Mortagne wrote: > Hi devs, > > We have a limitation in the xwiki/2.0 parser related to the way macros > are parsed: impossible to have the ending syntax of a macro as content > of this macro. > > Here is the related jira issue: http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-5077 > > A good example is: i want to have "{{/code}}" alone as the content of > a code macro. That's impossible. > > The only way to have {{/code}} in the content is with: > > {{code}} > {{code}} > {{/code}} > {{/code}} > > or > > {{code}} > ~{{/code}} > {{/code}} > > but in the first case you get "{{code}}" you did not want and in the > second you get "~" you did not want. > > Only solution i can see is to specifically handle escaping of ending > macro syntax inside macros of the same name. > > Here is some examples: > > 1) > > {{code}} > ~{{/code}} > {{/code}} > > would give code macro containing "{{/code}}" > > 2) > > {{code}} > ~{{/somemacro}} > {{/code}} > > would give code macro containing "~{{/somemacro}}" > > 3) > > {{code}} > ~~{{/code}} > {{/code}} > > would give code macro containing "~" followed by the text "{{/code}}" > > 4) > > {{code}} > ~~~{{/code}} > {{/code}} > > would give code macro containing "~{{/code}}" > > 5) > > Then double escaping for each level to escape: > > {{box}} > {{box}} > ~~~{{/box}} > {{/box}} > {{/box}} > > would give box macro containing a box macro containing the text > "{{/box}}": the first pass change "~~~{{/box}}" into "~{{/box}}" like > in example 4) and the second pass escape "{{/box}}" like in example > 1). > > So WDYT ? > > Here is my +1