"Virgil Ierubino" virgil.ierubino@gmail.com wrote in message news:24dce9db0701211957k752c1b69oec2d75ffbb4e5a68@mail.gmail.com...
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.
I missed the beginning of this thread for some reason.
Please also see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Markup_spec and its sub-pages for some work that has already been done in this area. It would be useful if you could merge your new page on meta into this existing content.
- Mark Clements (HappyDog)