On 27/09/10 19:42, Aryeh Gregor wrote: <snip>
:: we've had various people trying to replace MediaWiki's parser with a more conventional one since like 2003, and it's never produced anything usable in practice.
JeLuF wrote a token based parser back in 1.3. I am almost sure it has been used on live site. It eventually got disabled after a couple of days due to perf issues :
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/10496
I have found some old code in REL1_3 : http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/branches/REL1_3/phase3/includes/To...
That was before transclusions, categories ...