2009/9/24 Platonides <[email protected]>: > Brian wrote: >> * wikitext parsing would be much faster if the language was well defined and >> we could use flex/bison/etc...
> Have you read the archives? > It has been tried. Several times. > There's even a mailing list for that. > Getting a formal definition of ~90% of the wikitext syntax is easy. The > other 10% drived nuts everyone trying to do it hard enough, so far. > Keep trying, but build over what's already done. I suspect it'll be approached from the other end: FCKeditor will be improved until it can do quite a lot of the stuff, and there'll eventually be sufficiently little remaining that it can be bot-converted to a form FCKeditor can handle. At which point we formalise that and away we go with third-party parsers galore! Well, I can dream. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
