MediaWikiTablePlugin Development

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Michael,

Further to my comments on Tasks.Item1099 I installed the plugin and tried it against the Bounded Table.

It does it all, because one can add class= to any tag.

I also had a look on the inside of the code. Very neat, parsing it line by line in a state machine. In bounded table I worked table by table from the inside out. A lot more expensive I suspect.

The only thing I miss is the automatic oddrow/evenrow call on the <tr>. It is a nice touch in large tables with many rows. I notice mediawikitable adds the class mwTable without asking, so it does not appear totally out of whack.

The only thing I miss is the automatic oddrow/evenrow class on the <tr>. It is a nice touch in large tables with many rows. I notice mediawikitable adds the class mwTable without asking, so it does not appear totally out of whack.

Adding the oddrow/evenrow is not straight foreward, because the counter is valid/restarts within each table and needs to be saved on a stack untill the table is closed. Breaks the nice line-by-line algorithm. Have you thought about this? Is there another way of doing this? Is it of interest?

Thanks for the plugin. It's really neat. If I can have the oddrow/evenrow class, I will definitely abandon boundedtable.

-- BramVanOosterhout - 19 Feb 2009

Bram, yes even-odd row classes would be nice. Let me foswikify it (Tasks.Item8061) and then we can add this feature (Tasks.Item8062).

-- MichaelDaum - 19 Feb 2009

Okay it's a foswiki plugin now. Your turn

-- MichaelDaum - 19 Feb 2009

Boy, you are quick! I am still waiting for svn access, so I can do the bounded table thing. When I have access I struggle with svn I an not a developer, although I enjoy the challenge.

I did have a look at your code, and discover you do do the same thing as I did. table-by-table and then inside out. But after I had the table I did not go line by line.

where you say:
s/(^|[\n\r])(\s*{\|(?!.*?(^|[\n\r])\s*{\|).*?[\n\r]\s*\|})/$1.&_handleTable($web, $topic, $2)/ges)

I have a much more convoluted approach to do the same thing. The negative lookahead is neat.

Thanks for your prompt action. I'll give the even-odd row a shot as soon as I have svn access. whilst I wait I can pzzle over the algorithm.

23:39 - I've got the code. Just waiting for svn!

-- BramVanOosterhout - 19 Feb 2009