----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andreas Jonsson" <andreas.jons...@kreablo.se>

> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] WYSIWYG and parser plans (was What is wrong with 
> Wikia's WYSIWYG?)

> My motivation for attacking the task of creating a wikitext parser is,
> aside from it being an interesting problem, a genuin concern for the
> fact that such a large body of data is encoded in such a vaguely
> specified format.

Correct: Until you have (at least) two independently written parsers, both
of which pass a test suite 100%, you don't have a *spec*. 

Or more to the point, it's unclear whether the spec or the code rules, which
can get nasty.

Cheers,
-- jra

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