[WMS] Re: Call for Submissions: 2005 International Symposium on Wikis
- From: "Paul M. Jones" <pmjones@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: wiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 15:40:59 -0600
Sunir Shah wrote:
> Me too! For what it's worth, I've been hacking at my
> Monkey parser a little more. Once I get free links
> integrated, it'll be done enough to publish a
> description of a generic parser.
>
> My foreseeable end goal is a generic framework for syntax
> that will help build an open source WYSIWYG control that
> understands WikiSyntax. While of course WYSIWYG controls
> don't need WikiSyntax, having one would make it easy for
> people to transition from their existing wikis to the
> WYSIWYG module.
If what you want is a generic framework for building and combining
parsing rules, then converting to arbitrary output formats (including
XHTML, Latex, and plain text), take a look at PEAR Text_Wiki. (Full
disclosure: I'm the author.)
http://pear.php.net/Text_Wiki
Docs are here:
http://wiki.ciaweb.net/yawiki/index.php?area=Text_Wiki
It's for PHP, but the theory can apply to any OO-ish language.
-- pmj
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