[Pmwiki-users] Quoting http:/.... from within code invoke by $DoubleBrackets

[Christian Ridderström]

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 02:17:14AM +0100, Christian Ridderstr?m wrote:
> > 
> > So, if [[$Title]] is a part of $DoubleBrackets, it's output can be further 
> > processed.
> >  * Can it also be processed for other double-brackets?
> 
> Potentially, yes, but I haven't bothered to define the exact semantics
> here (more below).
> 
> >    Let's say the current page is 'Title.HomePage', and we have:
> > 	[[$[[$Group]]]]
> >    what *should* the final output be? The actual result is:
> > 	http://www.lyx.org/~chr/demo/pmwiki.php?pagename=Title.HomePage
> >  [...]
> 
> Answer #1 (short): The behavior of nested double-brackets is in general
> undefined.
> 
> Answer #2 (longer): Rather than try to come up with an answer for "what 
> should happen" in every markup instance, I've followed PmWikiPhilosophy 
> #3 and used a simplistic implementation that covers 95% of the cases for 
> now (and typically doesn't present too much confusion to the naive author), 
> leaving the other 5% of the cases purposefully unresolved until one or two
> specific problem scenarios are presented that can guide us towards a
> "correct" answer to such cases.  :-)

So what's the consequence for a designer of a module?

Should e.g. [[$Attachlist:]] output pure HTML (protected using Keep()), 
instead of taking advantage of the PmWiki markup since that behaviour is 
undefined (and might change in the future?)

/Christian

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Dr. Christian Ridderstr?m, +46-8-768 39 44       http://www.md.kth.se/~chr