30 Mar
2007
30 Mar
'07
8:06 a.m.
Vincent Massol wrote:
Interesting problem... I think there are several
possibilities:
1) You intercept page save and parse the content to add links for acronyms.
2) You do as you suggest and play with the rendering. This means that
the links will not exist in the database though
I prefer 1) because with 2) you'll probably not benefit from features
like automatic page rename. In addition 1) is easier to implement as we
have a notification API to get called when the page is saved for example.
What algorithm will you use to detect an acronym vs a standard word?
2) done and stored in plugin section.
On second thought, 1) is not that important with acronyms because they
are immutable. However, if existing renaming concept tries to rename
everything at once, and if 1) is used, then there is a race condition
between automatic links and renaming. Renaming should leave old page as
redirect page for some time. Redirect page should be detectable by link
processors (using special class?), so they can detect outdated links and
replace them eventually.