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Moin,
On Thursday 12 May 2005 09:33, Karl Eichwalder wrote:
Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
<brentdax(a)gmail.com> writes:
Karl Eichwalder <ke(a)gnu.franken.de> wrote:
Sure, or simply use proper <b>XML
markup</b>... This would have
the nice side effect that it can span more than a <i>single
line</i>.
Yes, I know, XML was not invented here and thus it isn't an option.
If you want to know why it was really done this way instead of
muttering inflammitory remarks, see
<http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyDoesntWikiDoHtml>.
I do not ask for HTML, I vote for XML.
- From a human point of view, XML is even worse than HTML - way to much
formatting gets into the way of writing the actual content. Wiki's syntax
is exactly why I love them over editing HTML/XML pages manually.
Yes, you could write the XML with some sort of WYSIWYG editor - but that
is beside the point.
(If you think about it, there is a reason that we write email in plain
text and not HTML, XML or anything else :)
Our all-time-morphing
wiki-syntax is not user-friendly. It keeps developers busy - how
boring if we would go for XML as an authoring language! No need to
write yet another parser...
I do think you are slightly wrong. While parsing XML is easy, making sense
of what it actually means is not so easy. And writing XML is much harder
than writing plain text (which wiki syntax basically is).
The wiki-syntax is short, but not easy. Sometimes
whitespace is
critical, but you will never know for sure. It is a very limited
presentation or layout language.
It certainly has some drawbacks. But throwing it out for XML is a solution
in search of a problem :)
Best wishes,
Tels
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