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is this really better?

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Joey Hess 2009-12-01 15:51:47 -05:00
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@ -17,3 +17,19 @@ This could also make it easier to support more styles of markup, rather than hav
-- [[KathrynAndersen]]
[[!taglink wishlist]]
> Arbitrary text transformations can already be done via the filter and
> sanitize hooks. That's how the smiley and typography plugins do their
> thing.
>
> AFAICS, the only benefit to having a regexp-based-hook interface is less
> overhead in passing page content into the hooks. But that overhead is a
> small amount of the total render time.
>
> Also, I notice that smiley does such complicated things in its sanitize
> hook (ie, it looks at html context around the smilies) that a simple
> matching regexp would not be sufficient. Furthermore, typography needs to
> pass the page content into the library it uses, which does not expose
> regexps to match on. So ikiwiki's more general filtering interface seems
> to allow both of these to do things that could not be done with the
> PmWiki interface. --[[Joey]]