On 31/07/07, Daniel Arnold arnomane@gmx.de wrote:
Furthermore there are other parsers beside MediaWiki that need to parse MediaWiki wiki source code. For example parsers for printed books, for the Wikipedia DVD and others. A MediaWiki sanitizer doesn't make their life easier...
No, but a well-defined specification for the markup would make writing alternative parsers quite straightforward.
Well wiki has no pages you can turn. So this is the nearest matching equivalent to page/chapter break for the web world.
You assume that wiki content is web-oriented, and while that's true, it's not the best attitude to have - wiki content does not have to be viewed on a screen at all, it could be printed into a book, or on t-shirts, or bits of toilet paper.
This is the *point* of semantics, as applied to information - "what I mean", not "what I look like".
Rob Church