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Re: extension for arbitrary chars in node names
From: |
Karl Berry |
Subject: |
Re: extension for arbitrary chars in node names |
Date: |
Mon, 24 Mar 2003 15:38:13 -0500 |
> address@hidden name="foo\"bar" node="foo\"bar:.baz"address@hidden
Description.
> (Similarly for xrefs, etc.)
Do we really need the name= and node= parts? Can't we simply delimit
the node name with address@hidden and address@hidden (or whateveer else we
decide to
use as delimiters)?
Well, I don't think we `need' the param=value stuff. It would certainly
work to use some <magicstring> as an unambiguous delimiter in the Info
output. (Although the problem of specifying at the source level when a
node name is given via the new syntax and when in the normal one
remains.)
I just thought it would make for a cleaner and more extensible syntax if
we didn't special-case everything that comes up. That way, there's a
chance of older versions ignoring new parameters cleanly, etc.