I didn't have anything in mind, evidently I was just vague on what the stuff in there is and does :-)
On 26 June 2015 at 16:52, Subramanya Sastry <ssas...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On 06/25/2015 06:29 PM, David Gerard wrote: >> >> On 25 June 2015 at 23:22, Subramanya Sastry <ssas...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >> >>> On behalf of the parsing team, here is an update about Parsoid, the >>> bidirectional wikitext <-> HTML parser that supports Visual Editor, >>> Flow, >>> and Content Translation. >> >> eeeexcellent. How close are we to binning the PHP parser? (I realise >> that's a way off, but grant me my dreams.) > > > The "PHP parser" used in production has 3 components: the preprocessor, the > core parser, Tidy. Parsoid relies on the PHP preprocessor (access via the > mediawiki API), so that part of the PHP parser will continue to be in > operation. > > As noted in my update, we are working towards read views served by Parsoid > HTML which requires several ducks to be lined up in a row. When that happens > everywhere, the core PHP parser and Tidy will no longer be used. > > However, I imagine your question is not so much about the PHP parser ... but > more about wikitext and templating. Since I don't want to go off on a > tangent here based on an assumption, maybe you can say more what you had in > mind when you asked about "binning the PHP parser". > > Subbu. > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
