[Zope-CMF] Discussion item reply using plain text rather than structured text

seb bacon seb@jamkit.com
Wed, 24 Oct 2001 10:25:30 +0100


* Jeffrey P Shell <jeffrey@cuemedia.com> [011023 23:15]:
> Personally, I've long wished for the text handling functionality 
> for Text based content (of any kind) in the CMF to be fully 
> extracted from the Document class itself.  In my view, there would 
> be a StructuredTextHandler, an HtmlHandler, and perhaps a 
> PlainTextHandler.  By abstracting the text handling out of the 
> document class itself, it would allow for different handlers to be 
> written and installed.

Yes, this would be good.  I've also toyed with the idea of having a
TTW interface for defining simple input and output handlers.  I wonder
if it would be feasible from a UI perspective?  You'd have to have
either plain input boxes for inputting the regex, or a more
complicated graphical regex builder.

seb