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Can't you render the parsed message as XHTML without parsing it as such? Frankly I'd rather not require the end users to balance their BBCode tags, especially when the current implementation doesn't. It seems like an unnecessary loss. I don't understand what you meant in your last sentence. If you u...

It doesn't have to be a hack at all. Optional end tags are part of HTML 5 and they're not limited to <li> so if you want to produce valid HTML you'd have to handle them appropriately. For instance, [p]a[p]b[/p]c[/p] might seem legal for a BBCode parser, but <p>a<p>b</p>c</p> is not valid HTML and it...

Ok, thanks. It would be nice if someone was able to compile a list of desirable characteristics, if not specs, for the current engine or future solution. It would be even better to sort them out as "essentials" (e.g. "needs to allow custom BBCodes" ), "nice-to-haves", a...

By the way, are there any existing tests for the current engine? All I see is one test in tests/bbcode/parser_test.php and a few cases in tests/bbcode/url_bbcode_test.php. I've looked into master and develop.

And so to fix the [url][b][url] issue, we would simply blacklist [url] from being a descendant of itself. Yeah, [url] would need to disallow itself and some other tags (anything interactive, such as videos) as descendants. In fact, no tag needs to be a descendant of itself, unless I'm forgetting a ...

IMO we should store a blacklist of tags that cannot be a given tag's child. IMO that's the way to go for a robust implementation. Ideally it would be best to not only control what tags are allowed as children of a given tag, but also which tags are allowed as descendants . For instance, take [b] an...

Thanks for the speedy reply. I should mention that I did not land in this topic because I was cruising forums for something to do. I have a Google alert on "bbcode" (mainly because I'm keeping tabs on what users do or want to do with them) which regularly brings me back here, and that's ho...

Could a developer chime in on the desirability of changing the BBCode engine please? In other words, how badly is it needed, if at all? I see that this RFC's ticket is blocking a few issues on JIRA, but nothing big. I think it would be super awesome if somebody could summarize this thread into a new...

BBCode should never compile to invalid HTML, so you'd have to have some way of validating that the [td] tag the user is trying to use is in fact in both a [table] and a [tr] . Would you mind expanding on that? When you say "invalid HTML" I assume you mean "structurally sound" (e...

AJAX [...] would continually be sending requests to the PHP bbcode parser after each character is typed. I think the first post refers to a normal (one-off) preview, not a "live" preview. As for the rest, while I'm not certain it would be a good idea for phpBB to implement a client-side p...