text highlighting nested languages? - SyntaxEditor for Windows Forms Forum

Posted 16 years ago by GavinK151

hi guys,

I have altered the HTML xml language definition file to add a new set of tags that get highlighted. This works fine unless these tags appear within an existing HTML tag. so for example this gets highlighted fine:


<mytag>

something

</mytag>

but if I have:


<input type="text" id="<mytag>something</mytag>"/>

Then <mytag>something</mytag> does NOT get highlighted (unless I remove the opening html <.

I see the same behaviour in the sample app with <% %> asp tags.

Is there anyway to get round this issue?

thanks!!

[Modified at 02/08/2006 10:09 AM]

Comments (1)

Posted 16 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA

The lexical parser is greedy so once it starts matching a pattern, it doesn't break until it finds the end of the pattern. To support things how you want, you need to make the contents of the string attributes break on '<' characters. Then you probably need to add the tag state as a child state of strings.

Actipro Software Support

The latest build of this product (v22.1.2) was released 3 months ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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