[pmwiki-users] Nested div markup

Dominique Faure dominique.faure at gmail.com
Thu Feb 15 13:17:38 CST 2007


On 2/15/07, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> At http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PITS/00887, Feral has
> proposed a very interesting markup for nested divs that
> I'm considering and could use some comments/feedback.
>
> Currently we have several div markups available:
>
>     (:div class='xyz':)...(:div:)      basic div
>     (:div1 class='xyz':)...(:div1:)    div that allows nesting
>     >>xyz<<                            div with 'xyz' wikistyle applied
>
> The current problem is that there's not a convenient way to
> associated wikistyles with nested divs.  My original thought
> had been to use multiple angle brackets to indicate nesting levels,
> so that >>><<< corresponds to a (:div1:), >>>><<<< is a (:div2:), etc.
> Thus the markup on the left below would be equivalent to the items
> on the right:
>
>     >>xyz<<                         (:div:)%xyz div%
>     Some text                       Some text
>     >>>abc<<<                       (:div1:)%abc div%
>     A nested div                    A nested div
>     >>><<<                          (:div1end:)
>     Back to outer div               Back to outer div
>     >><<                            (:divend:)
>
> PITS:00887 proposes a somewhat different (and possibly clearer)
> markup, by prefacing the >><< with a div number.  Thus instead
> of >>><<<, >>>><<<<, >>>>><<<<<, we would use 1>><<, 2>><<, 3>><<,
> etc.  Then the above would be:
>
>     >>xyz<<
>     Some text
>     1>>abc<<
>     A nested div
>     1>><<
>     Back to outer div
>     >><<
>
> I kind of like this -- it eliminates the need to count angle
> brackets, and makes the relationship between 1>>...<< and
> (:div1:) more explicit.
>
> On the downside, most other things involving "levels" in PmWiki
> use repetitions of the same character, as in headings (!!, !!!, !!!!),
> lists (*, **, ***), etc.  So this might be a little inconsistent.
>
> Another option would be to put div level markers on the inside
> of the angle brackets, thus  >>1 ...<<, >>2 ...<<, etc. to
> correspond to (:div1:), (:div2:), etc.
>
> Comments?
>

  >>xyz<<
  Some text
  >>1 abc<<
  A nested div
  >>1<<
  Back to outer div
  >><<

seem more consistent to me.

Dom



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