----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark A. Hershberger" <m...@everybody.org>
> The problem naturally falls back on the parser: As I understand it, > the only reliable way of creating XHTML from MW markup is the parser that > is built into MediaWiki and is fairly hard to separate (something I > learned when I tried to put the parser tests into a PHPUnit test harness.) > > I think The first step for creating a reliable, independent parser for > MW markup would be to write some sort of specification > (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Markup_spec) and then to make sure our > parser tests have good coverage. The last time I spent any appreciable time on wikitech (which was 4 or 5 years ago), *someone* had a grammar and parser about 85-90% working. I don't have that email archive due to a crash, so I can't pin a name to it or comment on whether it's someone in this thread... or, alas, comment on what happened later. But he seemed pretty excited and happy, as I recall. Cheers, -- jra _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
