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diff --git a/doc/todo/enable_arbitrary_markup_for_directives.mdwn b/doc/todo/enable_arbitrary_markup_for_directives.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7aa0b6d06 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/enable_arbitrary_markup_for_directives.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +One of the good things about [PmWiki](http://www.pmwiki.org) is the ability to treat arbitrary markup as directives. +In ikiwiki, all directives have the same format: + +\[[!name arguments]] + +But with PmWiki, directives can be added to the engine (with the "Markup" hook) with the usual name and function passing, but also with a regexp which has capturing parentheses, and the results of the match are passed to the given function. +Would it be possible to alter the "preprocess" hook to have an optional regex argument which acted in a similar fashion? + +For example, one could then write a plugin which would treat + +Category: Foo, Bar + +as a tag, by using a regex such as /^Category:\s*([\w\s,]+)$/; the result "Foo, Bar" could then be further processed by the hook function. + +This could also make it easier to support more styles of markup, rather than having to do all the processing in "htmlize" and/or "filter". + +-- [[KathrynAndersen]] |