Sweble vs Text_Wiki_Mediawiki
| From: | Daniel O'Connor | Date: | Tue, 03 May 2011 04:40:32 +0000 |
| Subject: | Sweble vs Text_Wiki_Mediawiki | ||
| Groups: | php.pear.dev | ||
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From my RSS feed:
http://sweble.org/ vs
http://pear.php.net/package/Text_Wiki_Mediawiki/redirected
"MediaWiki parser library. *Until today, Wikitext had been poorly defined.
There was no grammar, no defined processing rules, and no defined output
like a DOM tree based on a well defined document object model. This is to
say, the content of Wikipedia is stored in a format that is not an open
standard. The format is defined by 5000 lines of php code (the parse
function of MediaWiki). That code may be open source, but it is
incomprehensible to most. That’s why there are 30+ failed attempts at
writing alternative parsers"*