Hi,
way too often i have to hack modules or even core (upload) to make it *not* append HTML to $node->body.
I think this practice of appending stuff to the body is very bad, since it makes it impossible to add thatdata elsewhere, without duplication.
I think that teh best option is an additional variable in $node $node->extra containing structured data added by all the modules. $node->extra->upload could, for example contain that uplaod/attachement table, that is now hardcoded to the body.
In the very very end, the theme_node will iterate over all these ->extra 's and append them to teh body.
Now, the code, the patch, should not be too hard to make, its just a few lines to the theme_node functions
The hard part, imho is to convert **all** core modules to use this. and with All i mean all :). Taxononomy, for example, should add its terms in there, while book module should add its navigation.
The other thing is, that while this annoys me a huge lot, i just don't have time to get a patch going, untill at least end of Januari.
Waht do others think Bèr
PS: Im not to sure about tis crossposting thing, but there are loads of theme and developers issues; is it safe to assume that interested parties at least read development? (so that we can keep this on development)