[pmwiki-users] Nested div markup

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Thu Feb 15 09:18:55 CST 2007


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?

Pm



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