[erlang-questions] wkipedia rendering engine

[Hynek Vychodil]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Joe Armstrong <erlang@REDACTED> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Andre Engels <andreengels@REDACTED>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Joe Armstrong <erlang@REDACTED>
> wrote:
> >
> >> We (collectively) promised to help Alexander - I promised to provide him
> with a
> >> rendering engine (in Erlang) for the wikipedia markup language.
> >>
>
> Thanks - I didn't know the name of the format - seems like the
> processof parsing is
> reasonably easy -- see
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Markup_spec#The_Markup_Language
>
>
> It seems pretty amazing that there is no formal specifiation of the
> grammar of the markup language and that this
> is decided *after* there are a few quadzillion pages of markup text :-)
>
> /J


{joke, "It's not amazing, it's wikiworld!"}.


>
>
> >> Before I start hacking has anybody done this before?
> >
> > What exactly do you mean by a 'rendering engine'? Translating the
> > markup language (its name is Mediawiki, by the way) to something else?
> >
> > It's not a trivial task you have set yourself. There are some elements
> > that are quite complex, for example the fact that '' is italics and
> > ''' is bold. Notice the difference between:
> >
> > '''this is bold'''
> >
> > '''this is italic, starting with a ' ''
> >
> > '''this is bold '' and this part italic as well '''''
> >
> > Also deciding on what point of the analysis to expand {{templates}}
> > can lead the same code to get very different results.
> >
> > --
> > Andre Engels, andreengels@REDACTED
> > ICQ: 6260644 -- Skype: a_engels
> >
>
>
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