On 7/29/07, Edward Z. Yang <edwardzyang(a)thewritingpot.com> wrote:
That being said, I imagine the biggest problems with a
fully XHTML
backend is making it performance efficient (there are already tools out
there that can validate HTML quite well <http://htmlpurifier.org>).
Parsing/instantiating DOMs are quite expensive.
Um . . . you do realize that at last count it takes *800 ms* to parse
a page of wikitext? This is not the right context for complaints
about XML being complicated. ;)