From e5cc8c11dae1b8a03990b202cfe105bd3d4eae8c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: joey Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 17:09:23 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] todo --- doc/todo/nested_preprocessor_directives.mdwn | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/todo/nested_preprocessor_directives.mdwn diff --git a/doc/todo/nested_preprocessor_directives.mdwn b/doc/todo/nested_preprocessor_directives.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c11e38970 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/nested_preprocessor_directives.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Ikiwiki's preprocessor parser cannot deal with arbitrary nested preprocesor +directives. It's possible to nest a directive with single quoted values +inside a triple-quoted value of a directive, but that's all. + +It's not possible to unambiguously parse nested quotes, so to support +nesting, a new syntax would be needed. Maybe something xml-like?