On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 09:32:48AM +0200, Steve Bennett wrote:
On 8/29/06, Simetrical
<Simetrical+wikitech(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I don't know what "in-band" and
"out-of-band" mean ([[Out of band]]
doesn't help either), but if the diff engine parses the XML, it can
look for a) changes in structure/markup and b) changes in content.
I think what's meant is that with XML, it's basically trivial to
separate text from markup - depending on how you receive the XML, that
may already have been done for you. The structure and formatting thus
occupies a completely separate "band" to the text being formatted.
Whereas Wikitext is a nightmare to parse :)
My point was that it's a bastard to parse, but it seems intuitively
that it would be *easier* to diff.
And as to "it's never going to happen"...
Never's a *long* time; if we wish to engage in gedankenexperiments
about how to do an implementation that's "never going to happen"...
who cares?
Cheers,
-- jra
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