Last Edit: 2025-08-09 02:36:20

Recreole: A (very) basic wikicreole parser.

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There are a few shortcomings of this parser and I wouldn't trust it to a site where untrusted users can edit pages.

Shortcomings: *In-line wikifree zones don't work. the pre tag gets applied, but any double stars or slashes will get turned into bold or italics still. *There is no user input checking, no escaping of < or > so that has to be done elsewhere. *Tildes for escaping doesn't work *Unmarked links don't get href'd

Bonuses: *Appears to be a speed bonus *Simpler to customize *Allows for specifying what goes in the pre blocks for use in javascript coloring

Speed Results: These are the results of running 100 times on this wikicreole test case.

Seconds to run:
{'recreole': 0.289999961853, 'markdown': 1.13599991798, 'creoleparser': 1.16799998283}

  recreole  : 25%:##############                                             :
  markdown  : 97%:#########################################################  :
creoleparser:100%:###########################################################:

I know that markdown isn't designed to parse wikicreole, but they have a few things in common, and I think the test gives a usable result. I ran the test on the largest file from this archive and it gave roughly the same (percentage) results.

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