nielsadb: > On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 14:08 -0700, Don Stewart wrote: > > > Just a quick question, did you try using the pandoc markdown parser? > > > > > > http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/pandoc/0.46/doc/html/Text-Pandoc-Readers-Markdown.html > > > > It'd be useful to know if that was enough for printing and generation > > of wiki content. Though being GPLd, it'd also be nice to have a BSD-ish > > licensed wiki parser/pretty printer. > > No, I did not. In fact I didn't know about this project, but it looks > very interesting. I'll definitely go and look at the code. > One of the reasons I started worked on a MediaWikiParser was because I > wanted to use the Haskell language and some of its tools rather than just > read about them. I'm not really interested in making a clone of something > that already exists just for the sake of ideology (although personally > I'm much more fond of BSD-style licenses than of GPL).
Personally, I'd find a MediaWiki parser/pretty printer quite useful! > On a side note: are there any lexer/parser generators out there I should > be aware of? As mentioned in my original post I've tried using Happy, but > I was unable to understand its very concise error message 'parE'. > It would be really nice to have a tool that generates an AST automatically > (e.g. something like ANTLR). There's lots, but probably Alex (lexer) and Happy (parser) or Parsec are the most widely used. -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
