I think it's a good way to go - having a browser render the data. The issue is that the only true parser is the one built into mediawiki! I'll have a look at your C code..

Cheers, Brian

On 10/2/05, Wanchun qpro11@yahoo.com wrote:

I want to know if anyone is interested in writing an offline wiki browser.

<a href ="http://wikifilter.sourceforge.net/">WikiFilter</a> is a small program I wrote and both the binary and the source code (in C) are uploaded there. It is not a complete "reader", but a background "browser", because it manages the dump file, and does the parsing, but relies on a web browser to display the html output.

While managing the dump file is straightforward (build an index, search it for an article by title, etc.), parsing wiki text to html is quite tricky. I wonder if anyone has tried this before.

In particluar, are there any robust algorithms to parse templates and wiki tables?

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