[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #23625: Add function to extract or parse chat as structured data

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#23625: Add function to extract or parse chat as structured data
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 Reporter:  wonderboymusic   |       Owner:
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  3.6
Component:  Post Formats     |     Version:
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch        |
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Comment (by wonderboymusic):

 Refreshed against test scenarios. There is no `post_format_compat` for
 posts or themes that explicitly support the `chat` post format.
 `get_the_chat( $id = 0 )` or `get_content_chat( &$content, $remove = false
 )` can be used by themes that support `structured-post-formats` instead of
 calling `the_content()`. There are at least 8 scenarios that those
 functions have to consider:

 - One Stanza, no messages are multiline
 - One Stanza, no messages are multiline, followed by commentary
 - One Stanza, contains one of more multiline messages with or without `:`s
 that are not usernames
 - One Stanza, contains one of more multiline messages with or without `:`s
 that are not usernames, followed by commentary with or without `:`s that
 are not usernames
 - Multi-stanza, no messages are multiline
 - Multi-stanze, no messages are multiline, followed by commentary
 - Multi-stanza, contains one of more multiline messages with or without
 `:`s that are not usernames
 - Multi-stanza, contains one of more multiline messages with or without
 `:`s that are not usernames, followed by commentary with or without `:`s
 that are not usernames

 The resulting `array()` is a list of stanzas which each contain a list of
 messages, each is an associative array that contains `author` and
 `message` data

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