Through this
mailing-list, I see that we are struggling with Wikitext, which
is a time-consuming work. What I suggest is, instead of wasting more time,
we can change to XML, which is clearer, easy to parse, easy to understand
and easy to extend.
You want an XML based language for describing the formatting of
webpages? Basically, you're suggesting we switch to XHTML (with more
some features removed and a few added). XHTML is much harder to learn
and use than wikitext, even for experienced users.
XHTML would only be good for the formatting aspects. It can't represent parser
functions, template calls, etc. XML lets you mix and match vocabularies, of course.
-- Daniel