Lee Daniel Crocker lee@piclab.com writes:
On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 09:33 +0200, Karl Eichwalder wrote:
I do not ask for HTML, I vote for XML. Our all-time-morphing wiki-syntax is not user-friendly.
Yes, The current wiki syntax is dreadful, and getting worse with every release. But using XML doesn't solve the problem, it just puts up a big barrier to entry for newcomers.
I think different. Those who don't know or don't like XML can write <p>simple paragraphs</p> without any markup at all. After editing some article the markup is self-explaining:
<table> <row> <entry>...</entry> </row> <row> <entry>...</entry> </row> </table>
I never edit table boxes, too complicate, and it isn't worth learning a wiki-syntax; I cannot imagine something more boring than learning random markup codes. But that's just me ;)
FWIW, in the current thread, I'm all for deprecating unneeded syntaxes now, even before we reform the whole package.
If well planned, exchange the syntax could happen at edit/save time - simply store converted articles in a new table, etc.