balanceTags should ignore shortcodes & their content

[ciantic]

Take following input:

something [myshortcode]<b>[/myshortcode]

after balanceTags() it becomes:

something [myshortcode]<b>[/myshortcode]</b>

Well, this is not what the shortcode creator probably wanted.

Proposed fixes:

If you are feeling lazy: Convert [.*] to <$1> and since balanceTags handles XML it should work, afterwards convert appropriate <> back to []. Though this does not give a shortcode creator chance to disallow balancing tags inside it's content which is bad.

Better fix is to allow shortcode creators to decide wether their contents should be balanced:

1. balanceTags() should ignore all shortcodes and their contents.
2. Parse all shortcodes in content and on each shortcode call apply filter on so that shortcode creator can hook (if sees it appropriate) on to that. Shortcode creator then can call balanceTags() in his filter of that shortcode in order to run balanceTags() contents of shortcode separately if wanted.

[nacin]

It's pretty clear there hasn't been much of an appetite for dealing with this. That said, there have been some balanceTags improvements in the last few years, so it's possible to revisit this.

Any changes here will also need unit tests.

[MikeHansenMe]

Unit tests using example provided

[aaroncampbell]

I also thought we should have a test to make sure that
something <b>[myshortcode]<b>[/myshortcode] becomes
something <b>[myshortcode]<b>[/myshortcode]</b>

I added that in 18776.unit-test.2.diff​ and also moved the unit test and grouped it with the other balanceTags ones since that's what we're really testing

[miqrogroove]

Garbage in, garbage out. No traction.