[Seaside-dev] XML Markups and Canvases

[Lukas Renggli]

> return only a special object, no explicit canvas. Dont know if this is a problem, but would expect
> a new canvas somewhere in the canvas hierarchy (or with a similar interface).
> Will I have to mock the brush support to nest tags (see [1]) and if so how to do it correctly?

True, JavaScript is different, because it is no XML dialect. However
there is nothing that prevents you from returning a different WACanvas
subclass. WACanvas is ment to be subclassed for different XML
dialects.

> I still have a problem (with MathML as example, but havent looked to deep since it is late):
>
>  "html math row"   would return an own subclass of render canvas, but close the
>                            math tag, so the mrow is not embedded, see render method in example [1]
>
>
>  "html math: [ aBlockContents ]" would only work when I hand over the new
>                                                 canvas as argument to the block

Yeah, you have to pass in the canvas somehow.

Cheers,
Lukas

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