Talk:Text to HTML: Difference between revisions

::: doesn't that depend on what level you compare? even with exact input and output requirements, how do you compare solutions when one uses regexps and the other uses a state machine? the algorithms will be completely different. as tasks get more complex the comparability will have to be on a higher level. in this task the highest level of comparison is: plain text goes in, html comes out. examples will surely help, but i think these too need to come out of this discussion. once we can agree on a reasonable set of requirements, we can create a few input examples to test the requirements on.--[[User:EMBee|eMBee]] 02:57, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

:::: I was assuming that the results would be comparable. So, for example, if one implementation treats hanging indentation as a paragraph format, another treats it as a list format and a third and fourth treats that case as a table (one as a single row table, another as a table with one row per line of plain text), what would we be comparing? Or, as an extreme case (emulating fixed width presentation despite the possible absence of any fixed-width fonts) I might represent plain text as a (borderless) table with one cell per character (and all the characters in the original which represent a url would have a link to the corresponding url). --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 14:40, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

 

== Concrete requirements? ==