1 Ikiwiki's preprocessor parser cannot deal with arbitrary nested preprocesor
2 directives. It's possible to nest a directive with single quoted values
3 inside a triple-quoted value of a directive, but that's all.
5 It's not possible to unambiguously parse nested quotes, so to support
6 nesting, a new syntax would be needed. Maybe something xml-like?
8 > You can, however, unambiguously parse nested square brackets, and I think
9 > that would solve the problem, as long as you never allow the contents of a
10 > directive to contain a *partial* directive, which seems reasonable to me.
12 > For example, I *think* you can unambiguously parse the following:
14 > \[[!if test="enabled(template) and templates/foo" then="""
15 > [[!template id=foo content="""Flying Purple People Eater"""]]
20 >> Yes it's definitely possible to do something like that. I'm not 100%
21 >> sure if it can be done in perl regexp or needs a real recursive descent
24 >> In the meantime, this is an interesting approach:
25 >> <https://github.com/timo/ikiwiki/commit/a73837a8f26147e42a0bb2dde38b4890b27822b3>
27 >> \[[!directive text=\<\<FOO
31 >> Since that's implemented, I will probably just merge it,
32 >> once I satisfy myself it doesn't blow up in any edge cases.
33 >> (It also adds triple single quotes as a third, distinct type of quotes,
34 >> which feels a bit redundant given the here docs.) --[[Joey]]
36 >> Hmm, that patch changes a `m///sgx` to a `m///msgx`. Meaning
37 >> that any '^' or '$' inside the regexp will change behavior from matching
38 >> the start/end of string to matching the start/end of individual lines
39 >> within the string. And there is one legacy '$' which must then
40 >> change behavior; the "delimiter to next param".
42 >> So, I'm not sure what behavior that will cause, but I suspect it will
43 >> be a bug. Unless the `\s+|$' already stops matching at a newline within
44 >> the string like it's whitespace. That needs more alalysis.
45 >> Update: seems it does, I'm fairly satisfied that is not a bug.
47 >> Also, the patch seems incomplete, only patching the first regexp
48 >> but not the other two in the same function, which also are quoting-aware. --[[Joey]]
50 >> Yes, I'm terribly sorry. I actually did edit the other two regexps, but
51 >> I apparently missed copying it over as well. Should have been doing this
52 >> in a git repo all along. Look at the new commit I put atop it that has
54 >> <https://github.com/timo/ikiwiki/commit/a4e33d9654404acff71344cd5d3672bcdf3f3ce5>
55 >> Also: I'm not sure any more, why I added the m modifier. It was very
56 >> late at night and I was getting a bit desperate (turned out, the next
57 >> morning, I put my extra regexes after the "unquoted value" one. heh.)
58 >> So, feel free to fix that. --Timo