Simetrical wrote:
On Jan 25, 2008 6:44 AM, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
HTML+CSS is a well-specified format which aims to support output to all media types. It separates structure from presentation and provides for semantic annotation. There is a lot more content available in HTML+CSS than in any of the wikitext markup languages. That's why I wish research efforts were focused on analysis and conversion of this common language. Why would you want to convert directly from one restricted subset of HTML to an even more restricted subset? Why not improve annotation of MediaWiki's HTML output to make it more reuseable, and produce an HTML to MediaWiki wikitext converter?
Because for some purposes (e.g., a WYSIWYG editor), conversion both ways needs to be lossless, which it almost certainly won't be.
Compared to conversion to WikiCreole? HTML two-way conversion sounds a lot more plausible to me than WikiCreole two-way conversion.
-- Tim Starling