I know that a lot of wikitext has been written but I think the problem is: which work is harder, complete wikitext and build wysiwyg or build xml-based markup, convert to it and build wysiwyg upon it.<br>I think convert to xml is not too difficult because almost of wikitext constructs have already been converted to html day after day. We only have to convert some like inclusion, reference, parser function... And build a wysiwyg editor with xml-like markup is much easier than one with wikitext.<br>
<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2008/2/19, Platonides &lt;<a href="mailto:platonides@gmail.com">platonides@gmail.com</a>&gt;:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Minh Lê Ngọc wrote:<br>&gt; I saw we get a lot of troubles with wikitext. I wonder this idea is<br>&gt; possible: we will concentrate to build a wysiwyg editor which produces<br>&gt; xml-like content so that:<br>&gt;<br>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * people don&#39;t have to know any wiki language<br>
&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * developer is able to forget wikitext and its complexity<br>&gt;<br>&gt; To prove that it is possible with a friend of mine, I had write a<br>&gt; xml-like language for wiki (in Vietnamese). I can ask him to translate<br>
&gt; it into English (because I&#39;m not really good in English).<br><br><br>The problem is not to have a wysiwig editor and/or a xml-based markup.<br>The problem is to have that compatible in both directions with current<br>
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