[Foundation-l] EBNF of Wikitext

[Virgil Ierubino]

On 1/22/07, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Personally, I'm intrigued. Virgil, could you elaborate on the purpose
> of this project? In what ways can it help us (and who exactly is the
> 'us' in this case :))?

As explained already, an EBNF of Wikitext will allow for expansion of
Wikitext easily as it's conforming to a standard, and a more efficient
parser, etc. I'm not the expert in WHY it's good though, I just know it is.
And I know how to write EBNFs, and I can't work out how to code Wikitext's
bullet points in EBNF - if EBNF can't handle Wikitext, then the efficient
parsing and expansion won't be possible (as easily).

Would very much appreciate help from anyone clued up as to how to proceed if
Wikitext can't be EBNFed, or who can show me that it, in fact, can.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikitext_Metasyntax