Goals

• create a formal grammar corresponding to the current MediaWiki transformation-based parser
• create a parse tree structure suitable for exchange and import/export of other similar formats
• create converters for XHTML, pod and popular wikimarkups using the common parse tree structure

Prior art

• http://www.oha.it/woha/
• http://purplewiki.blueoxen.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Parser
• http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.language/19790

Reading

• The man(1) of descent
• RecDescent.pod
• perl regexp tutorial
• The P:RD FAQ