On 11/13/07, Jim Wilson <wilson.jim.r(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I agree with that. All wikitext is "shorthand" for something which
could otherwise be represented in HTML. Pre-save transforms should be
limited.
That's not the "shorthand" sense I
mean. Think about any of the language features, whether it's italics, lists,
links, __TOC__, parser functions, <gallery>, tables, whatever. They
all work on the basis
that someone deliberately typed some weird punctuation to tell the
parser to treat the
text differently.
ISBN is different: the parser deliberately tries to detect text that the
user typed naturally ("ISBN 123456789" being the normal, unmarked formatting
used in the real world) and treat it specially. It's not a
real grammatical feature, it's a deliberate effort to achieve markup with no
effort.
The only other feature I can think of that works that way is bare urls:
http://foo.com
Anyway, it's not a major issue. There are bigger fish to fry.
Steve