On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:01:07PM +1100, Nick Jenkins wrote:
Agreed. But I would also add that a nice (but low
priority)
characteristic of an alternate parser would be that if can be easily
reused in other apps besides MediaWiki. Lots of web apps seems to
reinvent some HTML-lite syntax, and it would be beneficial if multiple
apps could just drop-in our parser (thus saving users for learning yet
another syntax, and saving programmers from having to reinvent the
wheel). Having experimented once a long long time ago with extracting
the parser, and having found that it required lots of setup and global
variables to work, I can understand why this doesn't happen currently.
So a loosely-coupled parser that encouraged reuse could be nice, and
is related somewhat to encouraging interoperability.
Yup, it sure would be, wouldn't it?
Cheers,
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