Re: [PROPOSAL] Text_Wiki

On Mon Nov 24, 2003 at 01:1925PM -0600, Paul M Jones wrote: > Most Wiki projects use their own internal, specialized parsing and > rendering engines to transform source Wiki text to HTML. The rule > structures of different Wiki implementations are usually incompatible, > leading developers to write their own engine to parse and render theirn > own specialized Wiki markup. This makes it difficult to extract and > compare rule structure, as well as making it troublesome to > add/modify/delete existing markup rules. In addition, this makes it > near-impossible to "drop in" Wiki text transformation processes to a > nominally non-Wiki project. > > To solve the rule-modification and drop-in problems noted above, > Text_Wiki abstracts the process of displaying Wiki-formatted text by > using an object-oriented rule structure for parsing and rendering. Eventhough I have a god-given antipathy towards Wikis, the package seems to be fine. (IIRC I looked at it already when you first proposed it.) -- - Martin Martin Jansen http://martinjansen.com/