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diff --git a/doc/todo/enable_arbitrary_markup_for_directives.mdwn b/doc/todo/enable_arbitrary_markup_for_directives.mdwn index 94713838e..aa7b6fa49 100644 --- a/doc/todo/enable_arbitrary_markup_for_directives.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/enable_arbitrary_markup_for_directives.mdwn @@ -17,3 +17,19 @@ This could also make it easier to support more styles of markup, rather than hav -- [[KathrynAndersen]] [[!taglink wishlist]] + +> Arbitrary text transformations can already be done via the filter and +> sanitize hooks. That's how the smiley and typography plugins do their +> thing. +> +> AFAICS, the only benefit to having a regexp-based-hook interface is less +> overhead in passing page content into the hooks. But that overhead is a +> small amount of the total render time. +> +> Also, I notice that smiley does such complicated things in its sanitize +> hook (ie, it looks at html context around the smilies) that a simple +> matching regexp would not be sufficient. Furthermore, typography needs to +> pass the page content into the library it uses, which does not expose +> regexps to match on. So ikiwiki's more general filtering interface seems +> to allow both of these to do things that could not be done with the +> PmWiki interface. --[[Joey]] |