closing paragraphs </p> (Was Re: [Pmwiki-users] Another idea bef..)

[Paul Williams]

Christian,

The tag is <br>, and <br/> is XML shorthand for
<br></br>...

Cheers
 ~ Paul


--- Christian_Ridderstr&#246;m <chr at home.se> wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 03:35:26PM +0100,
> Christian Ridderstr&#246;m wrote:
> > > 
> > > Where '\\\' was used for breaking and creating a
> new paragraph, i.e. 
> > > inserting <P>.
> > 
> [snip]
> > 
> > In XHTML this has to be generated as
> > 
> >    <li>Start of long line.
> >      <p>New paragraph <br />
> >         New line</p>
> >      <p>New paragraph</p></li>
> > 
> > and finding the locations for the </p>'s can be a
> bit tricky.  In many
> > respects I'd like to eliminate the <p>'s from
> PmWiki's output entirely,
> > and just replace them with <br /><br /> so that I
> don't have to deal with
> > the containerization issues.
> 
> Doesn't <br/> need a closing tag? (I've got *no*
> clue about XHTML)
> 
> Just replacing <p>'s with <br/></br> is ugly IMO,
> because we remove the 
> information that a new paragraph is started. So we
> should only do that if 
> we want a blank line, and not something else.
> 
> As for implementation, isn't this the same kind of
> problem as for 
> closing a list item? (Guess I'll have to dive into
> pmwiki.php sometime 
> soon.)
> 
> Oh, and at the moment, is it possible to a create
> new paragraph while 
> inside for instance a list item?
> 
> One solution would be using a stack where you push
> things like '</p>' 
> onto, and before leaving the list item you pop it.
> 
> But I guess this assumes a general structure where
> tokens are parsed etc, 
> rather than *only* substituting regexps....
> 
> Speaking of which, how is '\' at the end of a line
> handled? Is the '\' 
> stripped and the next line simply appended to the
> current variable 
> representing the current line?
> 
> If this is the case, I don't understand why a '\' at
> the end of a line 
> produces a space:
> 
>
http://www.pmichaud.com/wiki/Test/LineContinuationAndWhitespace
> 
> /Christian
> 
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