[Mediawiki-l] Special pages machine-readable format

[Jamie Bliss]

With my work on Wikiwyg and other client-side apps for MediaWiki, I am 
going to have to add to the special pages a method to retrieve 
machine-readable data. The question is of course, what format?

I've gathered several posibilities I may use.
* XML - Some custom XML format specific to each page. (Plenty of 
parsers. Kinda complex.)
* RDF/XML - Used RDF/XML to store the data. (Less parsers. Higher 
complexity in overall system. Lower complexity in client software.)
* Custom format - Basically define a new syntax and write a parser (No 
parsers. Really freakin' complex.)

Any input from other developers?

-- Jamie
(PS- I cross-posted this to mediawiki-1 and wikitech-1.)
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