On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 08:03:17PM -0400, Simetrical wrote:
On 8/10/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
If you "ditched the wikitext" you would end up storing metadata in some other form, like additional XHTML attributes, comments or something. Meaning a whole new grammar to define?
A whole new *grammar* to define, to a point, but no need to define a *syntax*, because it would all use XML syntax. Not only is that simple (and, ergo, fast) to parse, there are parsers available for it in virtually any language you want.
And for a) those of us who *want* to work in raw text and b) those who want to write simple automation code, in saw, perl, you've just sextupled the workload.
Great.
Thanks.
Cheers, -- jra