Re: Re: [PEPr] Changes in proposal for Text::Text_Highlighter

On Tuesday 25 May 2004 15:22, Andrey Demenev wrote: > Jon Wood wrote: > > Would it be possible for the MySQL specific highlighter to extend a > > general SQL highlighter, making it possible for people to simply extend > > the core SQL standard highlighter for things like Postgre and Oracle as > > well? > > If take a more close look at the package, you'll find out that creating > a new highlighter is just a process of describing the highlighting rules > in XML format. One could take the XML for general SQL and edit it to > conform standards of a certain SQL dialect. That is really simple. At > the moment I don't see any reason to implement any kind of inheritance. > If you know such a reason, please let me know, > I guess it sounds tidy enough then, I'm just sucker for code reuse, which this seems like a good place to use it - if 90%+ of the highlighting rules will be the same, then it makes sense to me to keep that 90% in one file, which can be fixed in the future for everything. How about being able to include other highlighter definitions within the XML? > > -- > Andrey Demenev aka Blindman > demenev@on-line.jar.ru