Tels nospam-abuse@bloodgate.com writes:
And writing XML is much harder than writing plain text (which wiki syntax basically is).
<p> And the same is valid for XML. </p>
It certainly has some drawbacks. But throwing it out for XML is a solution in search of a problem :)
I think different. XML is simple, self-explaining. wiki-syntax is cryptic and by no mean ''plain text''. Many a lot ASCII characters are special, they are overloaded with markup resp. layout side effects. We are wasting much time with getting these side effects right.