On 1/21/08, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)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