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While we're on the subject, I would be interested in a programmatic approach to generating these files. The structure of the GeSHi language files is very, very simple; It's little more than a PHP-native serialization of a few regex setrings and symbol constants. If GeSHi supported JSON for that structure, it would be trivial to import language highlighting as a JSON file, and such a file would be trivial to generate programmatically. But GeSHi doesn't, so I'm stuck with PHP files until I (or someone else) writes a JSON->PHP conversion. That said, a number of folks have sent me language files, and so are familiar with its structure. Would anyone be interested in writing a webform-driven language-file ''generator''? For security's sake, I can't automate the import of the generated files, but it would greatly open up the process of generating the files, and perhaps make maintenance easier. I'd give it a subdomain such as geshi.rosettacode.org. --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 03:33, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

:Hm, I think I could write a CGI script (in Perl 5) to let folks fill out a form, perhaps with some minimal markup, to create a language definition. With careful use of resource limits and sanitization of the input, we could even let the user test the new definition without a local copy of PHP. But I'm not sure how using such a Web application would actually be easier or quicker than writing the literal definition. I mean, one of the things that makes writing new definitions so easy is that you can use a preexisting definition of a similar language as a starting point. Can you describe in more detail the interface you're imagining? —[[User:Underscore|Underscore]] ([[User talk:Underscore|Talk]]) 13:23, 10 November 2009 (UTC)