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[Jake McGraw]

Forget diffs and HTML text, this problem totally ate up all my time at
a startup where a JavaScript WYSIWYG editor was the only choice for
generating a marked-up document. May I suggest Markdown [1,2] + the
Showdown preview panel [3]. Markdown is a very light syntax for
generating HTML documents, Showdown gives you a preview of your
document while you're editing the textarea. I have already converted
one custom CMS to Markdown and I think it's been quite successful.

[1] http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
[2] http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/
[3] http://attacklab.net/showdown/

- jake

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Hans Zaunere <lists at zaunere.com> wrote:
> Gentlemen,
>
>> > The safest approach is probably to pass the html through tidy, and
>> > then into DOM, and traverse and count the length of text nodes, but
>> > that would be quite slow if you ran it on every request.
>>
>> Right, +1 for Tidy and DOM, it's the "real" way to do it. You won't
>> need to do it on every request -- you can either store the summary
>> itself as a separate text field, or store the length of the summary as
>> an integer.
>
> I tried this, working through using both DOM and Tidy, and combinations of each - no luck.  The problem is getting the differential between the two versions of the text.
>
>> This is crying out for a web service: The Excerpter. POST markup, get
>> the first X display characters back as a response, with embedded HTML
>> intact.
>
> Yeah, I agree - this has turned into a royal problem, and one that seems as though it'd had to be solved already.
>
> At the end of the day, what would be a very handy library - an object/etc that would store the text, in various forms, include various manipulation methods on it, meta data, etc, etc.  I had written something like this for MIME, but would not look forward to doing it for HTML/etc.
>
> H
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