On 2/20/08, Daniel Kinzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> LOT harder (especially wrt extensions) than getting the wikitext parser done.
> IMHO it's like this: getting 90% is easy with both, a formal grammar, and a
> wysiwyg editor (based on XML or whatever). Getting the last 10% into the prmal
> gramamer is HARD. Getting the last 10% right in a visual editor is pretty much
> impossible, even if you don't need "template designed" ability - the features
> used in "normal" articles are bad enough.
What's hard about the grammar exactly? It's been pretty slow, mostly
because of difficulties with ANTLR, but I don't think there are any
more major difficulties in the wikitext grammar exactly. Most of the
issues I've raised on this list seem like they're big ("zomg is that
asterisk a list or a literal!") but they're ambiguous in precious few
actual real examples.
Time to take this grammar and do something with it.
Steve
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