[Mediawiki-l] extensions and wiki markup

[Christof Damian]

Hello,
I wrote a tiny calendar extension for mediawiki to use it on my techno
wiki website. It works allright, but I would like to improve it.

I used the example from
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Write_your_own_MediaWiki_extension ,
which states "This function can then return a HTML string that gets
inserted into the output in place of the tags and text. Note that the
return string should be HTML, not wiki markup." 

Is there any to implement extensions which can use wiki markup?
Currently I have to implement Links with class Title and Article,
basically reimplementing the [[link]] syntax and that doesn't even
work nice with all skins.

I also might want to use templates and images in the calendar output.

Or is there an easy way to parse a string and get an html in return.

Christof
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Christof Damian         
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