Like YAML? ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]
Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Brion Vibber <br...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> The field metadata can be fairly straightforwardly displayed and edited >> through a nice web interface. XML as such is simply a conveniently >> well-defined structured data tree format which can be used both for >> storing the field metadata in the DB and exposing it to the template >> invocation editor interface (whether client-side JS or server-side PHP >> or a custom bot-based tool speaking to our API). >> > > Depending on what features are added, exactly, I'd imagine a > lighter-weight markup language would be more than sufficient. > Something where you can describe the syntax in less than a page and > write a correct implementation in half an hour or less would probably > be good enough. Like maybe just newline-delimited key=value pairs, or > something like JSON at worst. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
