Sweble vs Text_Wiki_Mediawiki

From: Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 04:40:32 +0000
Subject: Sweble vs Text_Wiki_Mediawiki
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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"*

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