[antlr-interest] Is ANTLR suitable for wiki grammar parsing?

Micheal J open.zone at virgin.net
Wed May 23 11:55:36 PDT 2007


Hi,


> I'm trying to evaluate ANTLR to determine whether or not it would be  
> a good fit for a wiki that we're currently developing.
> 
> Essentially, the question boils down to how elegantly it 
> would handle  
> a wide variety of somewhat unstructured input.  In other 
> words, users  
> are going to be entering in rather freeform content (i.e. 
> copying and  
> pasting form Word or some other character source), and I want ANTLR  
> to be able to accept all of the input but match special sequences.

This is similar to the way StringTemplate treats the contents of template
files. So, yes. I think ANTLR would handle it fine.

I haven't looked at your  grammar yet (no time atm) but others may be able
to comment directly on it.


Micheal


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