Hi Chris I ran into the same problem as well with the Discussion Plugin. If you just remove the ~~DISCUSSION~~ command, the comments still show up as in the metadata the status is unchanged. For the discussion plugin, it's not so grave because with ~~DISCUSSION:off~~ there's a regular way to remove the comments. Still, the problem should be addressed.
> My proposal is to: > - add a PARSER_METADATA_RENDER event wrapped around metadata > rendering. Action plugins which add/handle metadata could respond to > this.
Good idea.
> - add a clear() method to the syntax plugin class. DW would call that > method for every syntax plugin prior to processing the instruction > list. Syntax plugins that wished to clear out their metadata could > override the default method (which does nothing).
You mean, before rendering the instructions to XHTML the redirect plugin could clear its metadata and while processing the instructions re-adds it, if the redirect instruction is still there. I doubt whether this is the most elegant solution.
Other alternatives are: - wipe all metadata before re-rendering
Can all the metadata be easily reproduced by rendering the _current_ page? We currently do not use 'isreferencedby' and 'ispartof', but the list of contributors might be a problem.
- allow metadata values to be (somehow) marked as persistent when setting them. Values would not be persistent by default. The renderer would wipe all but persistent values before re-rendering.
I think this makes sense. But should this mark be stored with every value in the metadata or should we rather provide a way for plugins to register persistent metadata types?
- as above, but mark as non-persistent and default to persistent.
That's the current way - only that non-persistent values are not marked, but hard-coded for some known types. Cheers -- esther -- DokuWiki mailing list - more info at http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:mailinglist