Lee Daniel Crocker <lee(a)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.
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