Op 23 sep 2010, om 14:14 heeft Andreas Jonsson het volgende geschreven: > 2010-09-23 11:34, Bryan Tong Minh skrev: >> Hi, >> >> >> Pretty awesome work you've done! >> >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Andreas Jonsson >> <andreas.jons...@kreablo.se> wrote: >> >>> I think that this demonstrates the feasability of replacing the >>> MediaWiki parser. There is still a lot of work to do in order to >>> turn >>> it into a full replacement, however. >>> >>> >> Have you already tried to run the parsertests that come with >> MediaWiki? Do they produce (roughly) the same output as with the PHP >> parser? >> >> > > No, I haven't. I have produced my own set of unit tests that are > based on the original parser. For the features that I have > implemented, the output should be roughly the same under "normal" > circumstances. > > But the original parser have tons of border cases where the behavior > is not very well defined. For instance, the table on the test page > will render very differently with the original parser (it will > actually turn into two separate tables). > > I am employing a consistent and easily understood strategy for > handling html intermixed with wikitext markup; it is easy to explain > that the |} token is disabled in the context of an html-table. There > is no such simple explanation for the behavior of the original parser, > even though in this particular example the produced html code happens > to be valid (which isn't always the case). > > So, what I'm trying to say is that for the border cases where my > implementation differs from the original, the behavior of my parser > should be considered the correct one. :-) > > /Andreas > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Hm... Depending on how 'edge' those edge cases are, and on how much they are known. Doing that would may render it unusable for established wikis and would never become the default anytime soon, right ? -- Krinkle _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
