Simetrical wrote:
On 8/16/07, Maury Markowitz maury.markowitz@gmail.com wrote:
As I understand it, the MediaWiki system works by interpreting the "source code" as stored in the database and rendering it into HTML. I am curious to know how tightly connected the code is to the database.
The parser is, at present, very tightly connected to the rest of the code, and it cannot be easily extricated.
Domas tells me he once did exactly that, as a short experimental project he replaced the calls to other parts of MediaWiki with stubs, thereby detaching the parser. Maury could probably reproduce that work.
-- Tim Starling