Software Research and the Industry

For wiki research purposes as well as the Wiki Creole community’s convenience, we are making our EBNF grammar, the XML schema definition, and the to/from XML transformations available. You can use these specifications to create your own wiki parsers (using parser generators) as well as use standard technology (DOM, XSLT) to work with wiki pages [...]

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Title: An XML Interchange Format for Wiki Creole 1.0
Authors: Martin Junghans, Dirk Riehle, Umit Yalcinalp
Institution: SAP Research, SAP Labs LLC
Abstract: Wikis have become an important application on the web and in the enterprise, yet there are no interoperability standards between different wiki engines. We present the first complete XML representation format of Wiki Creole 1.0. [...]

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Title: An EBNF Grammar for Wiki Creole 1.0
Authors: Martin Junghans, Dirk Riehle, Rama Gurram, Matthias Kaiser, Mario Lopes, Umit Yalcinalp
Institution: SAP Research, SAP Labs LLC
Abstract: Today’s wiki engines are not interoperable. This is an unfortunate consequence of the lack of rigorously specified standards. This technical report presents a complete and validated EBNF-based grammar for Wiki [...]

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As you’ve probably guessed, this is my (Dirk Riehle’s) professional blog about computer science research and the software industry.
You can still find the old blog at http://www.riehle.org/index.html though I’ll slowly migrate relevant bits and pieces to the blog.

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Yep, I’m finally switching over to Wordpress. First my personal blog, now the research blog. Stay tuned for lots of updates in these first weeks of 2008!

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