On 06/02/2008, Chris Howie <cdhowie(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Feb 6, 2008 8:50 AM, Steve Bennett
<stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> For Chris, wikitext is context-sensitive so a
context-free grammar is
> not possible, but a useable ANTLR grammar is quite feasible. I'm
> actually getting pretty close. I'm just doing battle with tables atm,
> which are difficult because the syntax is pretty ambiguous, and
> because table cells can contain *anything* - including other tables.
When you get it done let me know. There is a C#
generator for ANTLR
grammars, so I could integrate this with WikiBench for, e.g., realtime
previews during editing (minus templates).
Yeah, WYSIWYG is the big winning application of such a thing. The
mediawiki.org pages set out where we're at with this beast, and
there's the wikitext-l list where this particular piece of vapourware
is being condensed - you have an application, so joining the list (and
reading the archive) would be a good and useful thing. Same for anyone
else who has a use for good third-party wikitext parsers - MediaWiki
wikitext appears at present mostly to be made of edge cases ...
- d.
