sgilbert(a)nbnet.nb.ca wrote:
I believe Nupedia (Wikipedia's parent encyclopedia
project) used
XML markup. That project had a division of labour between writers
and editors: the former simply wrote the articles, while the latter did
all the fancy markup.
And it worked well enough to generate 12 articles in 18 months, at an
exorbitant cost to me. :-(
I'm not saying that XML is bad, though. I *am* saying, since I've
been silent throughout this entire discussion, that I tend to side
with those who disfavor adding to or changing our markup much, despite
the fact that it isn't very powerful.
I'm very enamoured of the idea of meta-content markup. Marking up
<date></date> or <person></person> and so on, wow, there are a lot
of
cool possibilities.
But we should be reluctant to tamper much with a system that totally
works in an amazing way.
--Jimbo