On 27/09/10 19:42, Aryeh Gregor wrote: <snip> > :: we've had various people trying to replace MediaWiki's parser > with a more conventional one since like 2003, and it's never produced > anything usable in practice.
JeLuF wrote a token based parser back in 1.3. I am almost sure it has been used on live site. It eventually got disabled after a couple of days due to perf issues : http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/10496 I have found some old code in REL1_3 : http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/branches/REL1_3/phase3/includes/Tokenizer.php?revision=4179&view=markup That was before transclusions, categories ... -- Ashar Voultoiz _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
