On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Robert Rohde <rarohde(a)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