PseudoXmlPlugin

This plugin allows the user to type just any tag, and have the twiki engine convert it to span employing the pseudo-tag as the span's class or id

Syntax Rules

<date>11 Oct 2003</date> would be renamed: <span class="date">11 Oct 2003</span>

• psuedo-tags are numbers, upper and lowercase letters, hyphen (-), and the underscore (_) only
• does not support tag properties (e.g,. id="name", width="320", etc.)
• no extra spaces around the angle brackets

<#id>11 Oct 2003</id> would be renamed: <span id="date">11 Oct 2003</span>

Examples

<style>
.wiki      { background:green; color:white; }
.author    { background:%<nop>WEBBGCOLOR%; color:white; }
.bad       { background:red; }
.tags      { background:red; }
</style>

feel free to improve the examples by editing TWiki:Plugins/PseudoXmlPlugin

Caveats

• Nested tags are now expanded, but I think I might have significantly impacted the performance
• Multiline tags aren't handled correctly

PseudoXmlPlugin Global Settings

Plugin settings are stored as preferences variables. To reference a plugin setting write %<plugin>_<setting>%, i.e. %PSEUDOXMLPLUGIN_SHORTDESCRIPTION%

• One line description, is shown in the TextFormattingRules topic:
  • Set SHORTDESCRIPTION = renders xml-like tags as span with class or id of the pseudo-tag

• Debug plugin: (See output in data/debug.txt)
  • Set DEBUG = 0

Plugin Installation Instructions

Note: You do not need to install anything on the browser to use this plugin. The following instructions are for the administrator who installs the plugin on the server where TWiki is running.

• Download the ZIP file from the Plugin web (see below)
• Unzip PseudoXmlPlugin.zip in your twiki installation directory. Content:

  File:	Description:
  data/TWiki/PseudoXmlPlugin.txt	Plugin topic
  lib/TWiki/Plugins/PseudoXmlPlugin.pm	Plugin Perl module
  data/Sandbox/TestTopicPseudoXmlPlugin.txt	Plugin topic test

• Test if the installation was successful:
  • see also TestTopicPseudoXmlPlugin

• • see also also TestTopicPseudoXmlPluginNoSubstitutions, TestTopicPseudoXmlPluginHalfSubstitutions, TestTopicPseudoXmlPluginAllSubstitutions, TestTopicPseudoXmlPluginNestedSubstitutions

Plugin Info

Related Topics: TWikiPreferences, TWikiPlugins

-- TWiki:Main/WillNorris - 12 Oct 2003