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From: "Alex Brollo" alex.brollo@gmail.com
Just a brief comment: there's no need of seaching for "a perfect wiki syntax", since it exists: it's the present model of well formed markup, t.i. xml.
I believe the snap reaction here is "you haven't tried to diff XML, have you?
My personal snap reaction is that the increase in cycles necessary to process XML in both directions, *multiplied by the number of machines in WMF data center* will make XML impractical, but I'm not a WMF engineer.
Cheers, -- jra