[wordpress] Re: [wp-hackers] Plugin metadata

[Scott and Kim]

What about providing the plugin metatdata in a standard XML format?

On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 23:38:18 -0500, Elliott Bäck <ecb29 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> Kimmo Suominen wrote:
> 
> >How about wrapping the lines at under 80 characters?  It would also make
> >it easier to read the text files from a web server.
> >
> 
> Wrapping the files will make it slightly more annoying to parse, since
> the regular expressions will have to span multiple lines.  Speakin of
> parsing, does anyone know if there is an equivalent of yacc/bison/CUP
> for php?  If there were, we could have *real* parsers in WP, rather than
> these regex hacks.  There's something nice about a formal grammar...
> 
> (motivation:  currently taking compilers class, just turned in 36,000
> lines of Java5 and 3,000 lines of testcases)
> 
> Thanks,
> Elliott C. Bäck
> 
> 607-229-0623
> http://elliottback.com
> 
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