The other day I took the time to migrate the serializers into the latest codebase.
There are lots of things we can do to finish and or complete them, but they are a good way to hit the ground running.
Some key things that need to be worked on:
-
es.HtmlSerializer needs an algorithm that expands the flat list items in WikiDom into a tree structure more suitable for HTML rendering
- es.HtmlSerializer and es.WikitextSerializer need support for more things, namely definition lists but other gaps may exists as well (and we need to define what definition lists look like in WikiDom)
- es.AnnotationSerializer needs some nesting smartness, so that overlapped regions open and close properly (<b>a<i>b</b>c</i> should be <b>a<i>b</i></b><i>c</i> - es.ContentView does this correctly but is working from the linear data model)
- We need some sort of context that can be asked for the HTML of a template, whether a page exists, etc. Initially this work is all done on the client, which means this is a wrapper for a lot of API calls, but either way, having a firm API between the renderer and the site context will help keep things clean and flexible
The serializers depend on some static methods in es and es.Html - but are otherwise very stand-alone. We may even want to move es and es.Html (which are very general purpose libraries) to a shared library that the parser and es code can both depend on.
- Trevor
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Gabriel Wicke
<wicke@wikidev.net> wrote:
Hi,
today I started to look into generating something closer to WikiDom from the
parser in the ParserPlayground extension. For further testing and parser
development, changes to the structure will need to be mirrored in the
current serializers and renderers, which likely won't be used very long once
the editor integration gets underway.
The serializers developed in wikidom/lib/es seem to be just what would be
needed, so I am wondering if it would make sense to put some effort into
plugging those into the parser at this early stage while converting the
parser output to WikiDom. The existing round-trip and parser testing
infrastructure can then already be run against these serializers.
The split codebases make this a bit harder than necessary, so maybe this
would also be a good time to draw up a rough plan on how the integration
should look like. Swapping the serializers will soon break the existing
ParserPlayground extension, so a move to another extension or the wikidom
repository might make sense.
Looking forward to your thoughts,
Gabriel
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