[Wikipedia-l] Re: wiki source cvs

[Larry Sanger]

On 14 Jan 2002, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:

> Larry Sanger <lsanger at nupedia.com> writes:
>
> > This, by the way, would be a great feature for Wikipedia to be able to
> > use; we'd certainly like Wikipedia articles to be convertable to DocBook
> > XML format.  That's what we decided we wanted to use as an XML DTD for
> > Nupedia, and surely we'd want to use it for Wikipedia too.
>
> I'm not convinced that DocBook is the best DTD for this kind of
> content. I like it very much for (computer-oriented) technical
> documentation, but for a more general topic?

The proposal was to use an augmented version of it; we'd add lots of new
elements of our own.  Please see the tools-l mailing list archives for
more information.  There's no point in going over this all again.

--Larry