Karl Eichwalder wrote:
"Hr. Daniel Mikkelsen" wrote:
Wiki syntax is essential to the purity of the content. And the purity of the content is essential to most Wiki sites. Especially to Wikipedia, where we want the content to be ready to use in print, on PDAs, for blind people, etc.
If this is your agenda, SGML/XML would be the way to go. The so called wiki syntax without HTML extentions is to limited and worse, it is mostly layout oriented, and with HTML extentions it is the usual chaos.
Don't take me wrong, chaos isn't necessarily bad ;)
I don't think we want to force every contributor to learn SGML or XML. Our list of Wikipedians would shrink rather dramatically.
For the record, someone from the Linux Documentation Project wrote a little utility to convert Wikipedia syntax to DocBook. He orginally wrote it to export wiki documents, but he found it also was much easier to write new documents in wiki syntax and convert them rather than starting with straight DocBook.
Stephen G.