[xiphos-users] Slightly odd behavior - reason?

[Karl Kleinpaste]

On 1/17/24 13:32, Ed Backell wrote:
> Is this a known behavior? Is it easy to alter?

Yes. No.

The code wraps the entire verse text in <a href=...></a> to make it 
clickable. Then the problem becomes that internal linkages in the module 
markup also using <a href=...></a> create an HTML inconsistency of the 
form <a href=...> some stuff here <a href=...>module-internal link 
here</a> other stuff at the end</a>. The result is that "some stuff 
here" is clickable but "other stuff at the end" is not. And frankly it's 
just on the good graces of the HTML interpreter that any of the links 
work at all, because it's a real inconsistency due to the fact that 
<a></a> does not nest -- it would be fair, if unfortunate, for the HTML 
handling to just say "hm, <a href>...and then <a href>? who are you 
kidding, forget it."

This wasn't noticed until long after the feature, if you can call it 
that, was in live usage, and tweaking the code to become sensitive to 
the internal linkages within the text hasn't been seen as worth the trouble.

--karl
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