On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 05:38:18PM +0000, MinuteElectron wrote:
Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 02:00:34PM +1100, Steve Bennett wrote:
Also the fact that performance has become an issue probably leans even more towards the hand-built solution rather than a generated parser.
It does for WMF, maybe.
What *I* want to take away is a parser that does the first 80% of WT syntax, that I can drop into my CMS. And I'm certainly not alone.
If you want this you, or someone with a similar goal, will have to code it yourself. It is unlikely anybody would do it for you, especially if they just contribute to MediaWiki. However, I have been told, it is fairly simple to just override some of the functions to remove any database stuff - that would make it work in any CMS.
Well, I'm not at all sure that my desire is unreasonable and your response, reasonable.
Very early in Steve's work, the issue was raised that one of the targets driving the effort of defining the language so that the parser could be reimplemented was the fact that it couldn't be a bad thing if people needing lightweight markup languages for other purposes could easily utilise mwtext for that.
Cheers, -- jra