Re: BUG REPORT: Website META Language 2.0.1 (23-May-2000)

[Howard Alexander LaHurreau <nospam@thanx>]

On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 11:43:02AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> On Tue, 30 May 2000, Howard Alexander LaHurreau wrote:
> > I'm having a problem with wml::fmt::verbatim, specifically the
> > <verbatim-file> tag.  If the file contains lines beginning with
> > the '#' character, those lines will be stripped out.  Using
> > wml's -p option I was able to determine that the lines starting
> > with '#' were present all the way up until pass eight (HTMLstrip).
> > I know that wml::fmt::verbatim uses <protect pass=7-9>, but it
> > doesn't seem to be working. :-)  Thanks!

Just noticed that <verbatim-file> doesn't use the <verbatim> tag at
all and uses &wml_fmt_verbaim()...

> You are right, this is due to nested <protect> tags. You can replace
> in wml::fmt::verbatim
>   return "<protect pass=4-9>...</protect>";
> by
>   return "<"."protect pass=4-9>...<"."/protect>";

This works wonderfully.  Thanks!  :-)
 
> This problem is not related to current discussions about mp4h, because
> the <protect> tag is used by wml to replace some portions of text by
> an identifier before each pass, and replace this identifier by original
> text after. With current implementation, these tags cannot be nested.

Just a quick question: would it actually be useful to have nested
<protect> tags, or is it more trouble than it's worth?  (Simpler to
do things like the above?)

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