[dokuwiki] Re: back references in syntax plugin regex?
- From: Andreas Gohr <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 22:00:10 +0200
> Okay, let me try again: This has nothing to do with regex matching in code;
> I am using the built-in full-text search index to find and group my tags,
> hence they need to be words that are recognised by the indexing function.
> So, by hacking the indexer I allow '&' as a indexed word character and that
> way words like &tag show up in the index. Then it is very easy to create
> tag clouds, tables of tags with matching pages and search for pages
> containing multiple tags. After all they are just 'word' with a '&'
> prefix...
>
> It works very well as I said, so I was looking for a way to achieve the same
> feature without hacking, hence the idea of tripling the first letter: it was
> just another method of creating unique tags (distinct from other normal
> 'words' in the content). The plugin I created hides the '&' symbol when the
> tag is displayed, I would do the same with the triple letter.
>
> Does this make any sense yet? I could link to some screen shots if that
> would help!
Got it now. Make much more sense now. Maybe the easiest way would be
to have a way to modify what the indexer takes as word boundaries from
within a plugin? I like this approach to tagging by the way.
Andi
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