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Punctuation Modifiers

Funcdown utilizes some of the prefix and suffix characters. So called prefix and suffix modifiers. In order for one to apply suffix or prefix character, single white space (if suffix - before; if prefix - after) plays very important role. That one single space is what makes it work. Just like bash (shell) syntax. There are few of those characters, and here they are:

  • Exclamation modifier

    It is suffix-only modifier and works for both attribute values and text node values and its role is to force xml decimal entity encoding, but, in some cases using this modifier is uneccessary, as it is already - enforced. Anyway, this ... p {<script></script> !} ... will render the following: <p>&#60;script&#62;&#60;&#x2F;script&#62;</p> While without it .. p {<script></script>} You would get what You would expect, something like this .. <p><script></script></p> The same goes for the attribute values. This (note the T (type) attribute value) ... L (rel stylesheet, T text/css !, media all, % /style.css)| .. will render the following: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text&#x2F;css" media="all" href="/style.css">

  • Circumflex Accent modifier

    C.Accent ^ is suffix-only character and does the opposite of !. It decodes xml decimal entities back to their real characters. This modifier is for predefind tags and attributes. It simply won't have effect anywhere else. If we would like to display a portion of JS code within let's say pre tag, but to leave all problematic punctuation characters intact, this will do. pre {:>>> ((Language) => { console.info(Language); }) ('Javascript'); ^ <<<:} Note how ^ is not right next to the closing safestring wrapper but has one white space after. For regular code {Fun(c down) { string \} ^} white spaces do not play special role with curly wrappers as they do with pre {:>>> Fun(c down,safe) { string } ^ <<<:} .

  • Percent Sign modifier

    Percent sign % is a suffix modifier for the attribute data and prefix modifier for string node data. When placed after attribute value, it will urlencode the attribute value, unless attribute is not one of the mentioned in enforced rules. Something like this (note the src attribute value) .. J(src /?mice=%jsdata %,T text/javascript){} Will render (% is turned into %25) .. <script src="/?mice=%25jsdata" type="text/javascript"></script> When used before string (right after opening wrapper and a blank space), it will force raw source code identation properly to the left-side, which is quite neat for preformatted source code representation (pre or code tags). Example method taken from the funcdown library .. pre {:>>> % private function parse_fncd_array (array $array) { /// Funcdown array (PHP-native) govern/parse action. $this-> parse_fncd_string ($this-> atos ($array)); } <<<:} .. will be rendered like this: (note the identation, default 2 spaces) <pre> private function parse_fncd_array &#40;array $array&#41; &#123; &#x2F;&#x2F;&#x2F; Funcdown array &#40;PHP-native&#41; govern&#x2F;parse action. $this-&#62; parse_fncd_string &#40;$this-&#62; atos &#40;$array&#41;&#41;; &#125; </pre> For the record, this ENTIRE text (the whole rendered html page) with monospaced font is aligned to the left because of prefix % utilization. You may want to test that out on playground .. ? Default identation (starting left point) is 2 spaces. ident_eol is stall configuration property where You can tune it, and You can test that out only locally.

    Aligning text with percent sign (as prefix modifier) won't work for Microdown syntax. Due to Microdown nature, which is invented specifically for inline html tags, it is not logical to wrap huge text data with (although one can do it) and to expect preformatted and properly aligned multi-line portions of text.

  • Asterisk and Quote modifiers

    Those three are attribute only, prefix only modifiers and their purpose is to make attribute values - naked or to make them wrapped with single or double quotes. Hence there's difference where no single space plays important role with these modifiers. These three must be GLUED from the left side to the value. quotes_only stall configuration property, toggled to true will force all attribute values to be wrapped with double-quotes, which is most common case scenario. But, some folks prefer to write single-phrase html attribute values without quotes, which is valid in case of html5, as long as there are no white spaces involved. In case of quotes_only value is set to default 1 and we want our meta charset without quotes, this will do .. M(charset *utf-8)| It will render: <meta charset=utf-8> Now, let's imagine that quotes_only parameter is 0 / false. This (note the apostrophe ' after @) ... M(N description,@ 'This is page description text)| .. will render: <meta name=description content='This is page description text'> The same would happen with double-quote " with quotes_only - off or false. Value for the name attribute would remain - naked, and content value would be wrapped with double-quotes. Conclusion ? ' - Apostrophe or single-quote mark - always makes change. * - Asterisk will make changes when quotes_only is set to 1 or true " - Double-Quote mark will make changes only when quotes_only is set to 0 or false

  • Side Notes

    Beside roles that asterisk, percent and exclamation (*, % and !) characters have in this context, those three also serve as shorthands as stated in the Expansion Tables, and here is quick reminder below:

    • % is also a shorthand substitute for the href attribute, eg: a (% https://website.com) {Link Name}

    • ! is also a shorthand for title attribute (instead of title My Title -> ! My Title) and its main role is for opening HTML Comment, eg: !{Comment}

    • * plays a role for primary DTD tag, eg: *{5} (for html5 documents) or *{X} (for XML documents)

    Enforced Rules

    • Funcdown will encode dangerous characters automatically for the following:

      1. Values for predefined attributes alt, title, placeholder and data-before defined in PrConst::ATP hashmap

      2. DIRECT textnodes for prefeined pre, code and textarea tags defined in PrConst::FORMAT_BYPASS hashmap

      3. Each textnode within microdown syntax and just some microdown attribute values as in list item 1.

      - Using ! as suffix after predefined attribute value: expect double-encoding result.

      - Using ! as suffix after predefined tag textnode: expect no change with ! swallowed.

      - Using ! as suffix after microdown textnode: expect as is with ! intact.

      It is worth mentioning that predefined attributes will not accept % suffix modifier,
      meaning only ^ suffix modifier - will always work, will revert string back to normal, for all three cases.

    One may want to take a look at Funcdown library file for the PrConst trait for more details, and eventually expand the tag names there.

    Expanding default attribute list is a bit more complicated and requires more deeper editing and understanding, thus - not recommended.

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