RE: [PEAR-DEV] Pre-Proposal: Text_Wiki

Hi, I like the idea and i would have a use for it :) I would like to see something like this. Arnaud. > Hi, everyone, > > This is a pre-proposal for a package to be called (tentatively) > Text_Wiki. The purpose of Text_Wiki would be to parse text from a > user-definable set of Wiki markup rules to any other target format, > notably HTML but eventually RTF, PDF, Latex, and so on. Before I get > started on the package in earnest, I'd like to find out what > the level > of interest is in this kind of thing, and whether there's something I > have missed (so as to avoid the Text_TSV mess I got myself into a few > days ago ;-). > > http://c2.com/cgi/wiki > http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TextFormattingRules > > I've always been interested in the Wiki formatting style, especially > for non-technical users. I like the idea of being able to parse > Wiki-style markup wherever and whenever. However, I have > consistently > run into two problems when looking for a Wiki parsing engine. > > Problem 1: there is not a standard set of Wiki markup > rules. Sure, > there is the original Wiki rule set, but it has been enhanced and > extended (and ignored) by different Wiki implementations. > > Problem 2: every parsing mechanism I have found is embedded in a > larger Wiki application and very thoroughly integrated into that > app. > > These two problems, taken together, make it very difficult to plug a > Wiki parser into your own application, especially since you may not > need to support authoring, editing, versioning, page > tracking, macros, > and so on. > > Therefore, I'd like to propose Text_Wiki, a package that (similar to > Config) allows you to define different source markup rulesets > for Wiki > text, converts that source to an internal standard, then sends the > converted source to an output engine that renders into any number of > target formats. The first target format would be HTML, but once the > source Wiki markup is converted, there's no reason why it > could not be > converted to a PDF or to Latex. > > The guys over at WikkiTikkiTavi have a great GPLed Wiki > application in > PHP that already does most of this (conversion, output, etc). The > parsing and display are relatively loosely integrated with > the app, and > look to be extensible in a meaningful way. > > http://tavi.sourceforge.net/ > > If there's a positive response from the list, I'll talk to the Tavi > guys and see if they'd be amenable to letting me abstract and > port that > subsection of their code to PEAR. (I don't want to start a > "fork war" > so it might be best to wait on their kind permission.) > > Any comments? > > > -- pmj > > > -- > PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >