Thomas Dalton wrote: >> Through this mailing-list, I see that we are struggling with Wikitext, which >> is a time-consuming work. What I suggest is, instead of wasting more time, >> we can change to XML, which is clearer, easy to parse, easy to understand >> and easy to extend. > > You want an XML based language for describing the formatting of > webpages? Basically, you're suggesting we switch to XHTML (with more > some features removed and a few added). XHTML is much harder to learn > and use than wikitext, even for experienced users.
XHTML would only be good for the formatting aspects. It can't represent parser functions, template calls, etc. XML lets you mix and match vocabularies, of course. -- Daniel _______________________________________________ Wikitext-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitext-l
