Greetings

Hello, all.

Quite a few familiar faces here. I had to dust off my W3C account, but I’m happy to be here. At the moment, I am 100% unaffiliated, though that is likely to change at some point.

I really like the direction this work is taking. There are, of course, numerous antecedents, though one with a personal connection was Rick Jelliffe’s work with wiki markup languages, which I had the pleasure of porting to Python [1].

I also was wondering out loud, over on xml-dev, whatever happened to the Balisage Wiki Markup contest [2]. Despite it being sponsored by my employer at the time, I have no recollection of the results…

I’ve lightly skimmed the public archives, and feel like I have a *general* idea of the main discussion topics, but anyone feel free to send me back to the archives if one of my upcoming questions has already been discussed.

As a forcing function to get myself familiar with Rust, I’ve started work on an implementation. Nothing published yet. I’m peering closely at the Pest parser [3].

Welcome any thoughts, advice, or well-wishes. :)

-j

P.S. Always looking for a change, I am starting to go by “Joel” online these days.


[1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/pyxmlwiki/ <https://sourceforge.net/projects/pyxmlwiki/>
[2] https://dubinko.info/blog/2010/05/balisage-contest-solving-the-wikiml-problem/ <https://dubinko.info/blog/2010/05/balisage-contest-solving-the-wikiml-problem/> 
[3] https://pest.rs/ <https://pest.rs/>