[ANN] Tartan wiki parser 0.2.0

[Bob Hutchison]

Hi,

This looks interesting. I'll look more closely in a little while --  
I've got a queue to clear first.

FWIW, <http://projects.folklogic.net/tartan/pages/Home+Page> works  
but <http://tartan.folklogic.net> appears not to.

Cheers,
Bob

On 5-Jun-07, at 3:43 AM, Larry Baltz wrote:


> Hi all,

>

> I'd like to introduce you to the Tartan project

> (http://tartan.folklogic.net) and get your feedback.  It's a Ruby  

> based

> wiki text parser with the following goals:

>

>   1. handle more then one wiki markup but start with Markdown

>   2. allow mixing-in of markup rules (eg. Markdown + smartypants +

>      tables + wiki links; each as a separate definition)

>   3. tests and rule definitions written in a programming language

>      neutral format (YAML)

>   4. support more than one programming language implementation using

>      the same rules and tests

>

> The parser is at version 0.2.0 and currently provides a workable

> Markdown parser and test set.  The current Markdown rule set was

> developed somewhat in isolation and would benefit significantly from a

> review of the perl, javascript and PHP implementations and doesn't

> currently handle some "hard" parsing cases.

>

> You can get the source code from RubyForge --

> http://rubyforge.org/projects/tartan/.  You can either download the

> tarball or use subversion to get the most recent code.

>

> As for how well we've met our goals so far, goals 2 and 3 are met  

> pretty

> well and are used extensively in the Informl project (see

> http://informl.folklogic.net).  For 1, we've started in on Textile,  

> but

> there's nothing significant there yet and for 4 we haven't done much,

> but Javascript would probably be our next language of choice to do

> client side parsing.

>

> I guess I'd like to know if people on the list think the goals are

> interesting in other contexts and whether having a language neutral  

> set

> of tests or rules can be leveraged in other projects.

>

>

> Larry Baltz

> larry at folklogic.com

>

>

>

>

>

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