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This JavaScript class requires Prototype. It displays help on Textile next to elements with a particular class, and parses the help from a Hash that you can define in the constructor.
I’ve been using it to add help next to textareas that accept textile. All I have to do is create textareas with the class “show-textile-help”, and they get a little div full of useful information. The help text is hidden until the user clicks on the link:
AFTER A CLICK BY THE INTRIGUED USER:
Style it a little bit like this:
’ + element1 + ’’
})
textile_help += ’’
})
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Textile provides a simple way of writing human-friendly text that can easily be translated to XHTML. HTML tags are simplified into a set of phrase and block modifiers; even tables and attributes can be created.
I was looking at the PHP code for this and wondering if I could create an XSL file that could translate similar text into XHTML. I created some XML to contain my text:
And then used the following recursive algorithm to process it in XSLT:
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