On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Robert Rohde rarohde@gmail.com wrote:
Wikis are supposed to be easy to edit. Maybe I am misunderstanding your intent, but XML-ize everything sounds like an approach that would make it much harder for novice editors to figure out what they are doing. XML tends to be verbose and complicated when edited by hand, and rather opaque for people who have no experience with it.
I think the intention is that newbies will never even see the XML, let alone be expected to edit it. The XML defines the template, and tells MediaWiki how to construct the form that the user edits with. You would only need to edit the XML if you were modifying the template itself - hardly likely for a newbie.
Steve