Howdy,
Show quoted text> my $wc = new HTML::WikiConverter( dialect => 'MediaWiki' );
> $_="<em>x</em>:bla";print $bwc->html2wiki( $_ );
> triggers <nowiki> even though not needed.
Yeah. The problem is that nowiki tags are applied in a rather
mind-numbingly simplistic (ie, dumb) manner. There is a set of patterns
that, if matched, trigger the nowiki tag. These include:
qr/^\:/,
qr/^\*/,
qr/^\#/,
etc.
Note the caret that signifies that these should only match at the
beginning of a string. Intuitively this makes sense: a colon, for
example, should only be given a nowiki tag if it occurs at the beginning
of a line. Hence the caret.
The trouble is that "beginning of a string" is not synonymous with
"beginning of a line". In reality, the way the code applies these
patterns is that the caret signifies the beginning of a text node.
Your markup, "<em>x</em>:bla" gets parsed into something like this:
<p><em><~text>x</~text></em><~text>:bla</~text></p>
The corresponding MediaWiki markup should be
''x'':bla
without the nowiki tag, because the colon doesn't occur at the beginning
of the string. But presently, H::WC applies a nowiki because it finds in
that parsed html a text node that begins with a colon. And then you have
this mess:
''x''<nowiki>:bla</nowiki>
as you've already noticed.
Show quoted text> Not bad. All I ended up using was
> s@<nowiki>:</nowiki>@:@;
> s@<blockquote>\K\n\n@@g;
> s@\n\n(</blockquote>)@$1@g;
> to make to my taste.
It's a bit of a hack, albeit a necessary one. The real answer is for me
to fix the way the nowiki tag gets applied. And to do that requires a
bit of work. I'll see what I can do.
Show quoted text> By the way, one worry is
> <li><p>...<blockquote><p>...
> the second <p> gets blown away. But you can't just add a newline, else
> you'll break out of the * or # generated. In this case you might want to
> keep the second <p>...</p>'s. I wonder what happens with deeper nesting.
> (Actually I don't wonder, as hopefully my conversion task will be long
> finished by the time you read this.)
How does this relate to nowiki tags?
Cheers,
Dave
