2009/9/24 Platonides <Platonides(a)gmail.com>om>:
Brian wrote:
> * wikitext parsing would be much faster if the
language was well defined and
> we could use flex/bison/etc...
Have you read the archives?
It has been tried. Several times.
There's even a mailing list for that.
Getting a formal definition of ~90% of the wikitext syntax is easy. The
other 10% drived nuts everyone trying to do it hard enough, so far.
Keep trying, but build over what's already done.
I suspect it'll be approached from the other end: FCKeditor will be
improved until it can do quite a lot of the stuff, and there'll
eventually be sufficiently little remaining that it can be
bot-converted to a form FCKeditor can handle.
At which point we formalise that and away we go with third-party parsers galore!
Well, I can dream.
- d.