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Yup. It also has its own DOM, rather than continuously adding to one string and repeatedly running regex's on it (which is what MediaWiki does today).

I was already pretty far along with my own parser before Parsoid was usable though. (and my parser has its own DOM / hooks)



MediaWiki is such an astoundingly fugly piece of software.




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