Re: Variable ontology (was: Q: Pointers in
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From           steve@tcltk.anu.edu.au (Steve Ball)
Organization   Plume Project, DCS, ANU
Date           7 Apr 1998 09:30:33 +1000
Newsgroups     comp.lang.tcl
Message-ID     <6gboip$111@dcs-reserved3.anu.edu.au>
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In article fsf@bluepeak.westend.com, Andreas Kupries <a.kupries@westend.com> wr
ites:
>If memory serves me well, Tcl-only HTML renderers use a combination of
>regexp and subst to convert the markup into commands, which then
>render the data into text widget.

Nope, the HTML parser/renderer uses a regsub+eval combo.  It's the entity resol
ver
that uses regsub+subst (for example).

>I use the same trick in my autodoc application to convert
>crossreferences like
>
>       "bla bla ... <c FOO> .. tralala"
>
>into
>
>       "bla bla ... [classRef FOO] .. tralala"
>
>which then produces the correct hyperlink in a 'subst'-run.

Just like that...

Cheers,
Steve Ball
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