[pmwiki-users] Missing function in MarkupExpr (was:Skins authors and users : (in)Valid XHTML)

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 12:31:03PM +0200, Dominique Faure wrote:
> I was just toying with the skin test page [1] in order to embed a link
> to check the page validity, trying to write this as:
> 
>   Look %newwin%
> [[http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri={$ScriptUrl}?n={*$FullName}&skin={$Skin}|here]]
> what the W3C Markup Validation Service says about this page...
> 
> and just found that the resulting url may not be always valid.
> [...]
> Anyway, this would be better to have some kind of dedicated Markup
> expression to handle this such as:
> 
>   {(urlencode http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki)}
> 
>   http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pmwiki.org%2Fwiki
> 
> Should I open a PITS entry for this?

I'm not sure that this warrants a dedicated function in the
core.  We can open a PITS entry for people to vote on it... but
given that this is the first time something like this has been
needed, PmWikiPhilosophy #3 would seem to apply.

Thanks!

Pm