On 04/05/11 06:38, Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote: > On 5/2/11 5:28 PM, Tim Starling wrote: >> How many wikitext parsers does the world really need? > > That's a tricky question. What MediaWiki calls parsing, the rest of the > world calls > > 1. Parsing > 2. Expansion (i.e. templates, magic) > 3. Applying local state, preferences, context (i.e. $n, prefs) > 4. Emitting > > And phases 2 and 3 depend heavily upon the state of the local wiki at > the time the parse is requested. If you've ever tried to set up a test > wiki that works like Wikipedia or Wikimedia Commons you'll know what I'm > talking about.
I wasn't saying that the current MediaWiki parser is suitable for reuse, I was saying that it may be possible to develop the MediaWiki parser into something which is reusable. -- Tim Starling _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
