On 1/21/08, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
Forwarding, just in case anyone is on this list that isn't on the main mediawiki one.
Ooh, thanks. There are a couple of 404s on that page, but my initial reactions:
1. They used ANTLR (and it worked) 2. If nothing else, it would be good if our ANTLR grammar approached the problem in a similar way, used similar names etc. I don't think MediaWiki is going WikiCreole anytime soon, but it wouldn't hurt to at least be able to see across the gap... 3. Wikicreole seems quite a lot simpler to parse. And I'm jealous of some of the syntax. Looks like this is a table:
|-header
|some|row|... |same|row|...
|new|row|
|another|row
And that's it. I think I could actually remember that syntax without looking it up every time :) OTOH, it clearly doesn't support all the HTML styling and stuff that MediaWiki does.
My attempt at an ANTLR grammar has been a bit stalled lately due to the difficulties of working with ANTLR. I'm a bit disheartened by the amount of work needed to suppress all the warnings, and the sheer increase in complexity that seems to arise from every additional feature. But I'll definitely be keeping an eye on this document.
Steve