Wiki or Markdown-like syntax for simple forms?

Not an answer I think it should read sex = () Male () Female in order to get radio buttons, because sex = Male Female would result in checkboxes (meaning you could be both male and female) If your going to implement it. Also, you would hae to require one question per line, so you would know what to group up, otherwise any two () would be linked I also suggest you do not try to put values inside the () or , since its easier to search for them w/o text inside. But you might also add ( ) as selected and as checked.

If you use that tho, you cant have that stream of characters apear in the questions Just my 2 cents in case your going to implement it.

Not an answer. I think it should read sex = () Male () Female in order to get radio buttons, because sex = Male Female would result in checkboxes (meaning you could be both male and female) If your going to implement it. Also, you would hae to require one question per line, so you would know what to group up, otherwise any two () would be linked.

I also suggest you do not try to put values inside the () or , since its easier to search for them w/o text inside. But you might also add () as selected and as checked. If you use that tho, you cant have that stream of characters apear in the questions.

Just my 2 cents in case your going to implement it.

The code I listed was just an "example", not a fully thought out syntax, but you definitely make some good points. () for radio buttons and for checkboxes seems reasonable. One per line is not that big of a limitation.

Indicating a selection is easy: (x). Text boxes are _____, drop downs could be city = {BOS, NYC, SF}. – Yevgeniy Brikman Apr 29 at 17:48.

I came across jspwiki.org/Wiki.jsp?page=WikiFormsPlugin some time back. Not sure f you can reuse the class tho.

Haha, I'm not sure if I like that syntax any better than regular HTML. I guess it's technically a markup, but not really in the spirit of Markdown (or even the Wiki markups I've seen. ) – Shtééf Apr 25 at 14:31 Thanks for the link.

From a quick look, I gotta agree with Shtééf: the syntax is definitely not very markdown or wiki-like. You'd need to know enough HTML to use it that you may as well use HTML itself. – Yevgeniy Brikman Apr 25 at 17:29.

I have not been able to find a library that suits my needs, so I forked the WMD project (which SO uses for its Markdown syntax highlighting) and put the project on on Github. I didn't have time to implement it, but maleldil kindly did it himself, so try it out!

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