MediaCloth

About

See also RubyForge MediaCloth page

MediaCloth is the first MediaWiki parser written in Ruby. MediaCloth is also the first true MediaWiki parser which has handwritten lexer, LALR parser, AST builder, walker and HTML generator.

MediaCloth is still in the early stages in development but it already has some capabilities working.

For example, the text

This is some text with '''bold''' and ''italic'' formating.
The list is also here:
* List Item 1
** Sub list item 1
** Sub list item 2
* List Item 2
The end
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Download

MediaCloth 0.0.1
This release is available as gem package:

gem install mediacloth

It's also possible to download it from SVN directly and try:
Get recent SVN snapshot
Anonymous SVN instructions

API

            require 'mediacloth'
            puts MediaCloth::wiki_to_html(input)

            require 'mediacloth'

            parser = MediaWikiParser.new
            parser.lexer = MediaWikiLexer.new
            ast = parser.parse(input)
            generator = MediaWikiHTMLGenerator.new
            generator.parse(ast)
            puts generator.html

Look into the complete API reference for more information

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