For proof of principle (and just for fun, of course!) I took a few hours to write a simple single-pass parser for wikipedia pages in C++, using sql++ (the "official" MySQL API). It supports external and internal links (with "does topic exist" check), special line beginnings (:, *, #, and leading space), wiki-style bold and italics, ---- things etc. No == headings == (beheadings neither;), no namespaces, but these are simple to implement. Called from the shell (as I didn't connect it with the apache yet), it renders the Main Page in 0:00.04 (without caching ;) Should I continue to work on this, and eventually add it to the CVS, or is it just a waste of time? I will, of course, continue to work on the PHP script, no doubt about that! Magnus