[Mediawiki-l] Emancipate the Parser

Fri Sep 29 14:46:54 UTC 2006

Hm... When I previewed this in MW 1.7.1, I got:

<p><b>bold </b><a href="/w/index.php?title=Link&amp;action=edit"
class="new" title="Link"><b>bold </b> not bold <i>italics</i></a><i>
still italics</i>

Which is completely valid, and exactly what is wanted by the user.

I am not sure what the problem is...

On 9/29/06, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I've been among those writing parsers (many half-baken ones;-) and
> IMHO the only viable option, in the long run, is to make an abstract
> grammar (whatever style) and have parser generators for many languages
> implement them.
>
> This would also be an improvement over the current parser, which renders
>
>    '''bold [[link|bold ''' not bold ''italics]] still italics
>
> as
>
> <b>bold <a href="/mediawiki/index.php?title=Link">bold </b> not bold
> <i>italics</a> still italics</i>
>
> which is about as broken as it gets, and only tidyhtml saves wikipedia
> from serving such embarrassments.
>
> Magnus
>
>
>
> On 9/28/06, jeremiah johnson <naikrovek at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think this is an awesome idea.  Especially since I spent all day
> > writing a parser in Java.
> >
> > I work at an organization where using PHP is not allowed, so this is
> > my only option.  I don't even know PHP well enough to port MediaWiki's
> > parser.
> >
> > If anyone knows which PHP classes (is 'classes' an appropriate term
> > for PHP?) contain the parsing logic, I can port it, then open source
> > the parser.
> >
> > If anyone is interested, please let me know.  I'm writing a parser for
> > the small amount of markup my organization would use, but I'd be quite
> > happy to port the MediaWiki parser to Java at home.
> >
> > jeremiah();
> >
> > On 9/28/06, Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Has it ever been considered to separate the MediaWiki markup parser from the
> > > core MediaWiki project?  It seems to me that if the parser stood on its own,
> > > it would help wiki adoption by allowing others to use the same syntax as the
> > > most popular wikis in the world (Wikipedia).  As MediaWiki has pledged
> > > support for Creole, it seems that eventually the wiki parsing in MediaWiki
> > > will have to be converted to accomodate a common interface that works for
> > > both MediaWiki and Creole, so why not use this opportunity to free out the
> > > core parser?
> > >
> > > Gregory Szorc
> > > gregory.szorc at case.edu
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