[Wikitext-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] WOM

[Sumana Harihareswara]

Magnus sent this link and I think you'd be interested:

"Abstract: Wikipedia is a rich encyclopedia that is not only of great 
use to its contributors and readers but also to researchers and 
providers of third party software around Wikipedia. However, Wikipedia’s 
content is only available as Wikitext, the markup language in which 
articles on Wikipedia are written, and whoever needs to access the 
content of an article has to implement their own parser or has to use 
one of the available parser solutions. Unfortunately, those parsers 
which convert Wikitext into a high-level representation like an abstract 
syntax tree (AST) define their own format for storing and providing 
access to this data structure. Further, the semantics of Wikitext are 
only defined implicitly in the MediaWiki software itself. This situation 
makes it difficult to reason about the semantic content of an article or 
exchange and modify articles in a standardized and machine-accessible 
way. To remedy this situation we propose a markup language, called XWML, 
in which articles can be stored and an object model, called WOM, that 
defines how the contents of an article can be read and modified."

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Wikitech-l] WOM
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 19:18:48 +0100
From: Magnus Manske <magnusmanske at googlemail.com>
Reply-To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l at lists.wikimedia.org>

In case you missed it all the way over there in Haifa:-)

http://dirkriehle.com/2011/07/29/technical-report-on-wom-an-object-model-for-wikitext/

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