On Jun 20, 2012, at 1:02 PM, Niklas Laxström wrote:

> No, this is not about a wikitext parser. Rather something much simpler.
> 
> Have a look at [1] and you will see rules like:
> n in 0..1
> n is 2
> n mod 10 in 3..4,9 and n mod 100 not in 10..19,70..79,90..99
> 
> Long ago when I wanted to compare the plural rules of MediaWiki and
> CLDR I wrote a parser for the CLDR rule format. Unfortunately my
> implementation uses regular expression and eval, which makes it
> unsuitable for production. Now, writing parsers is not my area of
> expertise, so can you please point me how to do this properly with
> PHP. Bonus points if it is also easily adaptable to JavaScript.
> 
> [1] 
> http://unicode.org/repos/cldr-tmp/trunk/diff/supplemental/language_plural_rules.html
> 
>  -Niklas

You may already know this, but santhosh is working on a parser[1] in javascript
(as a node module, to be specific). I added a test suite to his repository. 
Ready
to be expanded and build upon!

-- Krinkle

[1] https://github.com/santhoshtr/CLDRPluralRuleParser

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