Re: [Wikitech-l] Parser postprocessor

2011-01-31 Thread Platonides
Daniel Friesen wrote: > An interesting idea just popped into my head, as a combination of my > explorations through the dom preprocessor and my attempt at deferring > editsection replacement till after parsing is done so that skins can > modify the markup used in an editsection link in a skin-sp

Re: [Wikitech-l] Parser postprocessor

2011-01-31 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Trevor Parscal wrote: > Adding yet another discreet parsing step is the reverse of what a lot of > people hoping to clean up wikitext are heading towards. What system do you propose that would retain the performance benefits of this suggestion, and be deployable

Re: [Wikitech-l] Parser postprocessor

2011-01-31 Thread Jan Paul Posma
Usually I don't reply that much on other threads, but for this: +1. Jan Paul On 31-Jan-2011, at 22:55, Trevor Parscal wrote: > Adding yet another discreet parsing step is the reverse of what a lot of > people hoping to clean up wikitext are heading towards. > > What some of us have been kickin

Re: [Wikitech-l] Parser postprocessor

2011-01-31 Thread Trevor Parscal
Adding yet another discreet parsing step is the reverse of what a lot of people hoping to clean up wikitext are heading towards. What some of us have been kicking around would be migrating away from pre-procesing the text at all. Instead the text should be parsed in a single step into an interm

[Wikitech-l] Parser postprocessor

2011-01-31 Thread Daniel Friesen
An interesting idea just popped into my head, as a combination of my explorations through the dom preprocessor and my attempt at deferring editsection replacement till after parsing is done so that skins can modify the markup used in an editsection link in a skin-specific way without breaking t