2009/9/24 Platonides Platonides@gmail.com:
Brian wrote:
- wikitext parsing would be much faster if the language was well defined and
we could use flex/bison/etc...
Have you read the archives? It has been tried. Several times. There's even a mailing list for that. Getting a formal definition of ~90% of the wikitext syntax is easy. The other 10% drived nuts everyone trying to do it hard enough, so far. Keep trying, but build over what's already done.
I suspect it'll be approached from the other end: FCKeditor will be improved until it can do quite a lot of the stuff, and there'll eventually be sufficiently little remaining that it can be bot-converted to a form FCKeditor can handle.
At which point we formalise that and away we go with third-party parsers galore!
Well, I can dream.
- d.