Wcp Syntax

It's traditional Ward's syntax (except for the 4 -) plus StructuredData? in form of WcpEssExpressions.

CamelCase is internal link, any word with at least one '_' character will be an internal link, so that one word page names are possible. External links are recognized by prefixes such as http: . New lines will begin a new paragraph.

WcpEssExpressions are introduced by the backquote escape character ` . Now most of the EssExpressions are designed to closely resemble html.

So because there's the <hr /> html for a line separator, the WcpSyntax for it will be

 `hr

Preformatted text is typically written like this

 `(pre "string")
 `( pre #<< EOF 
   This is a line spanning
   string contast delimited by a keyword
   EOF )

Other WcpEssExpression? patterns (by the way, as a side-effect WikiChangeProposal there's now PatternMatchingInJava available for functionally minded people who have to suffer Java :) ) :

 (h ?level . ?rest) -- for example (h 2 "This is a <H2> header")
 (p . ?rest)        -- this is a html <p> paragraph
 (a (href ?hrefValue)) -- this will generate an <a href=hrefValue > hrefvalue </a>
 (a (href ?hrefValue) ?label ) -- <a href=hrefValue > label </a>
 (a (?internalLink ?team) ?label) -- an wiki link with a label to an edited version
 (a ?internalLink ?label) -- the same but pointing to the general namespace not to a particular team's version
 (chess . ?position) -- a chess diagram 

And in principle plugin writer can define a new keyword like "chess" in the example above that will be used as the first symbol in the pattern matching to introduce structured data for a particular application, and a pattern to match the kind of data the plugin expects to receive, and at runtime, it will be given the corresponding S-Expression supplied by the user and a wiki context containing at least an HTML output stream (escapes characters by default) and a raw outputstream.

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