On 2/15/07, Jim Wilson wilson.jim.r@gmail.com wrote:
Alternate Parsers - Extension developers could implement alternate parsers. This _could_ put an end to the _italicized_ and *bold* debates. It might also offer a way to allow pages to use any of a number of different parsers for different purposes. Maybe have some pages use MW syntax, while others use full XHTML with the aid of a WYSIWYG editor (not a full solution to that debate, but it's something).
This would run into serious problems with stuff like system messages (which contain lots of wikitext, at least by default) and hardcoded strings (many of which are at least going to be HTML, if perhaps not often wikitext). Nice idea, though.