> -----Original Message----- > From: wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org > [mailto:wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of > Dmitriy Sintsov > Sent: 03 July 2009 07:48 > To: Wikimedia developers > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] On templates and programming languages > > * Brion Vibber <br...@wikimedia.org> [Thu, 02 Jul 2009 > 10:18:14 -0700]: > > Aryeh Gregor wrote: > > > I was assuming it would just return wikitext, and that would be > > > integrated into the page and parsed, following all limits on > wikitext > > > (including size) -- just as with current parser functions. > > > > That's one simple way to implement, but we may wish to consider > working > > with a document tree structure instead to help future-proof > it against > > future syntax changes (or dropping out the wiki syntax entirely). > Things > > to consider... :) > > > SLAX http://code.google.com/p/libslax/ (provided by Gregory > Maxwell) looks like really good thing for document tree > manipulation and as the people have pointed out, XSLT is > simle to limit (lock the recursion down). It's compact and > more easily readable comparing to "normal" xslt. > I remember that PHP has some standard module for XSLT > transformations, I wonder whether it's simple to convert > SLAX->XSLT then use PHP XSLT transformation. > Dmitriy >
Think something like ESI language (http://www.w3.org/TR/esi-lang but without the HTTP requests) would be preferable to XSLT. If was going the XML route. Jared _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
