[pmwiki-users] Permissions conundrum, section behaviour

[Henrik Bechmann]

Patrick,

If I could press just a little re: delimiters,

My main reasons were:

- Delimiters provide explicit attributed identification so that the 
blocks would be available for other applications, including 
section-edit, but also for application extensions (cookbook recipes) 
that would be able to take advantage of the structured naming, typing, 
and parameters. I don't quite see how anchors could provide the same 
level of information. Could they? Are you planning to allow attributes 
for anchors?

- Delimiters and anchors are orthogonal: delimiters are an application 
construct; anchors are an HTML construct. I am concerned that combining 
them may be more confusing for users than separating them, and that 
combining them inherently imposes limitations on usage of blocks of 
sections.

- Delimiters, if named with the standard "section" name ([!section 
comment...!] or (:section comment...:)) are explicit and coherent, 
whereas it may be hard to differentiate anchors applied to section 
blocks from HTML anchors, etc.

- Delimiters form a conceptual coherent delineated balanced pair with 
matching directives. Directives such as (:commentaction parm parm parm:) 
provide the behaviour instructions; delimiters with attributes such as 
-- (:section comment:) text (:sectionend:) -- provide the clear matching 
output.

Comments?

- Henrik
>> I also wonder if all section blocks should be given delimiters:
>>     
>
> For a variety of reasons, I'm planning to use anchors to delimit
> section blocks, including for inserted comment.  
>
> Thanks!
>   
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