Re: [cowiki-dev] Do not ask what coWiki can do for you ...

Archie Campbell wrote:

> Paul,
>
> I'm sticking to your "Extension to coWiki text formatting" document.

Good.  I appreciate that!  (It also means I will have to take credit for 
any bad that it includes, but that's my job!)

>
> Today I started into the ReverseParser, which will be entirely parsed 
> by php's XML. No more preg_match for the internal format.

Right!

>
> I'm hoping I shan't tangle with the FrontHTMLTransformer, and I won't, 
> unless things go awry.

Isn't a lot of this just given over to transforming the XML document 
into HTML?  I would think we'd use XSLT to do this transform...

>
> Give me the weekend and we'll see what I can do.

Granted!

>
> The, er, Scots are as civil and kindly a people as you would like to 
> meet anywhere. Many folk have claimed climatic interactions and can be 
> found describing persons in terms best suited to weather forecasts. 
> They're as up-to-date as the rest of the UK, but lag slightly in cable 
> and broadband take-up and availability.
>
> Indeed life was hard in the past, and as for internecine clan warfare, 
> look up any book on Glencoe for some of *my* lot's contributions. 
> Cephalicmarble is an anagram...

I'll spend some time figuring it out.  Someday.  <G>  I'm told the 
Scottish have made contributions to my blood like, but no one ever 
volunteered exactly *where*.  :-)

>
> The mediaWiki is GPL, and so is texvc, their bespoke math tool. As 
> soon as the parser is singing along, I'll get out my carving knife and 
> chop us some foreign code.

A thought to consider-- what are the chances of writing an Adapter that 
will let us use their code as-is?  It's better for us because then there 
is nothing for us to do if they make a code fix.  I can help you with 
thinking this through, if you want.

Paul