[Mediawiki-l] wiki dom-like structure

[Ittay Dror]

Hi,

Any thoughts about changing the parser so it works in two steps? first, parse the wiki text to create a dom like structure of elements (you can have TemplateCallElement, InternalLinkElement etc.), then, traverse the tree, calling tag or function hooks. this will allow much more powerful extensions. 

Also, i think it will allow better handling of special characters. By not using regular expressions, and creating a tree of elements, special characters can be escaped naturally (quoted, or with '\').

Thanks,
Ittay

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