Re: [Phpwiki-talk] New jeffshacks snapshot.

[Jeff D. <da...@da...>]

On Sep 14, 2001, Adam Shand said:
> i think the easist way to do this (and i've mumbled about this before so
> excuse me if you're sick of it already :-) is to make a generic output
> mode for any wiki page which will output as rdf/rss and then a php rss/rdf
> parser to build side boxes for whatever from that.

Yes.  That may be the way to go, at least for RecentChanges, and
also perhaps various search outputs.  RSS RecentChanges have been
on my todo list for awhile.  (I've already hacked the PhpWiki 1.2.0
code which runs HammondWiki to produce an RSS version of recent 
changes.)
 http://www.dairiki.org/hammondwiki.rdf

My main interest in RSS was to get a UnifiedRecentChanges
index going.  I've got a prototype sort of working, but have
stopped working on it while I'm working on jeffs-hacks.
 http://matthews.dairiki.org/urc.html
 http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?UnifiedRecentChanges
 http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?RssExtensionModuleForWikis

When you say RDF/RSS output for _any_ wiki page, what exactly do you 
mean?
Do you want just the page meta-data (page name, author, edit date) or
do you want all the content, too?  I've been thinking about that a bit.
I'm no expert, but it seems that RDF is ideally suited for the 
meta-data,
but not really meant for storing the content.  (It seems some more 
general
form of XML might be better suited for that.)

The other problem with RDF, is that I suspect it's going to be awhile
before a good full-blown RDF parser is available in PHP.  (Parsing RSS
is one thing, parsing generic RDF is quite a bit trickier.)

> and then comments would just be:
> 
> # blah blah
> # please leave the below lines intact.

Of course, that syntax is already used in PhpWiki for ordered lists.
It would have to be something uglier like:

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