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diff --git a/doc/todo/Short_wikilinks.mdwn b/doc/todo/Short_wikilinks.mdwn index 10ea70927..077cded23 100644 --- a/doc/todo/Short_wikilinks.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/Short_wikilinks.mdwn @@ -23,6 +23,20 @@ extra for missing pages). > memory to avoid re-rendering. I don't want ikiwiki to be slow or use > excessive amounts of memory. YMMV. --[[Joey]] +>> Or you could disk cache the incomplete page containing only the body text, +>> which should often not need re-rendering, as most alterations consist of +>> changing the link targets exactly, and we can know pages that exist before +>> rendering a single page. Then after backlinks have been resolved, it would +>> suffice to feed this body text from the cache file to the template. However, e.g. +>> the inline plugin would demand extra rendering after the depended-upon pages +>> have been rendered, but these pages should usually not be that frequent, or +>> contain that many other pages in full. (And for 'archive' pages we don't need +>> to remember that much information from the semi-inlined pages.) It would help +>> if you could get data structures instead of HTML text from the HTMLizer, and +>> then simply cache these data structures in some quickly-loadeble form (that +>> I suppose perl itself has support for). Regexp hacks are so ugly compared +>> to actually parsing a properly-defined syntax... + A related possibility would be to move a lot of "preprocessing" after HTML generation as well (thus avoiding some conflicts with the htmlifier), by using special tags for the preprocessor stuff. (The old preprocessor could @@ -47,3 +61,5 @@ Other alternatives would be \[[link bar]] \[[link bar=VeryLongPageName]] + +>> This is, however, still missing specifying the link text, and adding that option would seem to me to complicate the plugin syntax a lot, unless support is added for the |-syntax for specifying a particular parameter to every plugin. |