[cgi-wiki-dev] Creating URLs

Tom Insam cgi-wiki-dev@earth.li
Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:51:58 +0100


On Oct 26, 2004, at 9:30, Kake L Pugh wrote:

> On Tue 26 Oct 2004, Tom Insam <tom@jerakeen.org> wrote:
>> if I change formatters to one that doesn't support my linking style,
>> I don't want to have all my links change. What the links look like is 
>> a
>> completely seperate problem from how we turn wiki text into HTML.
>
> I think what you're saying is that you want one "thing" that does all
> the wiki formatting apart from the links, and another "thing" that
> does the formatting of the links, and you want to be able to use any
> all-formatting-but-the-links formatter with any does-the-links 
> formatter.

Yes.

With the exception that I don't like the word 'formatting' when applied 
to links. We're not formatting the links, we're creating a link.


tom