Jose escribió: > Hi, > > I am new to the list. I would like to parse wikitext files from > wikipedia and have some doubts: > > 1) what is the best parser that gets the best rendering for wikipedia > content ?
MediaWiki parser. >And the fastest parser ? I don't know a parser comparison but you can be really fast if you don't mind dropping some features. > 2) If I decide to write my parser, That's a bad idea. > how can I handle rendering of infoboxes/macros ? They're called templates. There's a preprocessing step which substitutes templates. You then parse the result. > Maybe the idea > is to parse the wikitext but handle the macros/infoboxes/templates > with a separate library (as > I imagine there are lots of different templates and it might be silly > to try to parse/render each one > as this might be handled well for existing libraries) You can't parse each template separately, as templates are not independent, they have parameters. > thanks and regards > jose > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitext-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitext-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitext-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitext-l
