Jim Higson wrote:
A while ago I started some experimental client software that took the output from wiki2xml, I got sidetracked but now I've got some more time I'm wanting to get back to it.
A few questions:
I've searched the list and see there is now a proper flex/bison parser. The
Speaking of which, why have a flex/bison parser? Wouldn't it be better if mediawiki created XML pages directly, like an "atom feed" or "rss" button? Mediawiki already carries a HTML engine for rendering wikitext to HTML, wouldn't it be easy to, with little modification, make it output XML (or even Docbook/XML) instead of HTML?
Cheers, Pedro.