On 5/8/05, Magnus Manske <magnus.manske(a)web.de> wrote:
This reminds me that I had a problem some time ago
with the
Special:Export XML. Some XML parsers automatically remove
spaces/newlines, which are both essential for the wiki markup. While
that *can* usually be turned off, it is confusing and annoying.
I'm not an XML expert, but it seems to me that we can (and likely
should, due to HTMLish wikitags) wrap the wiki markup in a CDATA
section. An XML parser that still throws away whitespace in that
situation would be horribly, horribly broken.
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Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <brent(a)brentdax.com>
Perl and Parrot hacker