On 8/17/07, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
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.
Hmm. No, there's not *that* much interaction between it and the rest of the software. Now that you point it out, I grant there's no reason it shouldn't work to yank it out, necessarily. Maybe that could be done in core code, allowing the parser to stand alone.