On 1/22/07, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Personally, I'm intrigued. Virgil, could you elaborate on the purpose of this project? In what ways can it help us (and who exactly is the 'us' in this case :))?
As explained already, an EBNF of Wikitext will allow for expansion of Wikitext easily as it's conforming to a standard, and a more efficient parser, etc. I'm not the expert in WHY it's good though, I just know it is. And I know how to write EBNFs, and I can't work out how to code Wikitext's bullet points in EBNF - if EBNF can't handle Wikitext, then the efficient parsing and expansion won't be possible (as easily).
Would very much appreciate help from anyone clued up as to how to proceed if Wikitext can't be EBNFed, or who can show me that it, in fact, can.