Re: [MirageOS-devel] using cow

[Richard Mortier <Richard.Mortier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 23 Dec 2013, at 18:54, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:

> On 23 Dec 2013, at 14:56, Richard Mortier <Richard.Mortier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> 
>> thought: given the use and abuse to which xml/html are put though (or, if 
>> you prefer, the flexibility which they provide), having some kind of [`Raw 
>> of string] might be useful. kind of like a CDATA but which doesn't leave any 
>> tag in the xml when rendered to a string (ie. the element tag never gets to 
>> the browser).
> 
> We're trying to avoid that, since Cow is only an XML parser.  What we're 
> missing is a proper HTML parser, which can be built on top of XMLM easily 
> enough.  Just needs someone to map the XMLM signals onto the HTML-specific 
> rules (some tags shouldn't be closed at all, and a set of entities is 
> predefined).
> 
> So for now, think of Cow.Html as actually being Cow.XHtml, and you should be 
> set.

hm-- i'm not sure an html parser will actually help. some of the inline 
markdown content is invalid html (i believe).

eg., rendering the blockquotes from your slides is another piece of inline 
markdown that has to be done manually:

> this is a blockquote rendered as
> a <blockquote><p>...</p></blockquote>

needs to have the <blockquote>...etc put in manually. surrounding with CDATA 
allows cow to escape the to &gt;  

similarly some of the indentation in code blocks isn't passed through by CDATA 
correctly.

i've managed to make most of them except your lectures look ok. i'll push 
changes -- if you can figure out a solution, let me know. else i'll have to go 
back to serving fragments from files i think.

-- 
Cheers,

R.




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