Feature Request External label resolution

[Sherwood Botsford]

Allan Odgaard wrote:

> On 20 Apr 2008, at 00:28, Sherwood Botsford wrote:

> 

>> [...]

>> Suppose that markdown was clever enough to reference an external

>> file (in .markdownrc of course) for the resolution of LABEL.

> 

> Here’s a simple shell script to convert all markdown to HTML and using a 

> shared references file:

> 

>     cd ~/MySite/pages

> 

>     for f in *.mdown; do

>         cat "$f" references|Markdown.pl > "../html/${f%.mdown}.html"

>     done

> 

> I use something like that myself where I also have a command to update 

> my references list, that is, grep through the pages for undefined 

> references and add these to the references file (where I will then need 

> to add the URI).

> 


Hmm.  Ok, I think I could to it this way in Template Toolkit:

[% INCLUDE Header.inc %]
]% USE Markdown %]
[% FILTER Markdown %]
<div class=content>

blah blah blah

</div>
[% INSERT References.inc %]

[% END %]

[% INCLUDE Footer.inc %]

Downside is then that Markdown has to process every reference
which if you have a few thousand will be time consuming.
(I have an INSERT text at one point that jsut in template toolkit
takes 10-12 seconds to do. It's only a thousand lines, but there
is zero processing to do, it just stuffs it into the file.