Hello all,
I am currently trying to get permission to rewrite the wikitext parser with a separate data and engine layer. I currently have a change ready that would convert preprocessToXml to the new parser. You can see the change at http://sites.google.com/site/natesprograms/Home/WMParser2.txt. You can see my progress in getting permission to check it in at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Commit_access_requests#Nathanael_Thompson. Any code reviews of the diff above would be much appreciated.
Thanks, Nate