On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Trevor Parscal tparscal@wikimedia.org wrote:
Oh please no!
- Trevor
On 12/7/10 7:26 AM, Platonides wrote:
Daniel Friesen wrote:
PHP -> XSL doesn't quite feel like much of an improvement in terms of cutting down on the verbose redundant code boilerplate required to insert something. ie:<xsl:value-of select="title"/> doesn't look much better than<?php $this->text("title") ?>, as opposed to {$title|escape:html}.
This seems an argument for using the preprocessor for the skin system, in order to include the variables into the raw html.
I was first like wtf as well, but on the other hand this way skin building would be much more accesibles for non-programmer mediawiki users. Regular wiki users do know wikitext, as opposed to PHP. I'm not entirely sure though that this would be good for your sanity. I wouldn't discard the idea immediately, insane as it may seem.