On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 2:57 PM,
Platonides<Platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Brian wrote:
XML is hard to edit. That's the reason wikitext was created, to "fix"
the issues with the, even easier, html.
Now, it is being proposed to add a XML processing on top of wikitext to
describe templates.
<snip>
Unless expressly forbidden by the software implementation, I would
assume that "helpful" Wikipedians would very quickly write template
description templates to replace the XML and give it a "nice" wiki
interface. So, in practice, the question of whether XML is hard to
edit will probably be moot and reduced solely to the issue that
templates are hard to edit.
It's unlikely that many people will ever see or edit the XML as there'll
be a perfectly good structured user interface.
-- brion