[Wikitext-l] WOM: An object model for MediaWiki’s Wikitext

[Hannes dohrn]

Hi all,

we've finally finished our work on our technical report about a Wikitext 
Object Model (WOM) for MediaWiki's Wikitext. The report is about an XML 
format (XWML) for data exchange and storage of Wikitext pages as well as 
the WOM Java interfaces. These interfaces make it possible to access and 
modify the semantic content of a Wikitext document in a unified way 
without worrying about the concrete Wikitext syntax (but possibly 
preserving it).

More information and the report itself can be found on our Sweble blog:

http://sweble.org/2011/07/wom-an-object-model-for-mediawikis-wikitext

I've also added a page on the Sweble AST, XWML and our WOM in the 
MediaWiki wiki:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Future/AST and
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Future/AST/Sweble

On a related topic, we will present our paper on the Design and 
Implementation of the Sweble Wikitext Parser at WikiSym 2011. For those 
of you who want to take a peek before the conference, we’ve put a 
pre-print version of the paper on our blog:

http://sweble.org/2011/07/design-and-implementation-of-the-sweble-wikitext-parser-unlocking-the-structured-data-of-wikipedia

Cheers
Hannes