"Virgil Ierubino" <virgil.ierubino(a)gmail.com>
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On 1/22/07, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)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
I missed the beginning of this thread for some reason.
Please also see
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Markup_spec and its sub-pages
for some work that has already been done in this area. It would be useful
if you could merge your new page on meta into this existing content.
- Mark Clements (HappyDog)