Re: [Phpwiki-talk] linking scheme and markup

[Tara S. <te...@cl...>]

Steve Wainstead wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Gary Benson wrote:
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>>What would be really cool would be for the engine to output XML of some
>>kind and then slap that through an XSL template to create the final pag=
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>>(rather than using the html templates with ###TAGS### in them).
>>
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> Looks like this will be feasible in the future:
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> http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.xslt.php
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> However, I don't think anyone will be wanting to edit Wiki pages on the=
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> WAP phones or Palm Pilots anytime soon. Who knows? At the moment it sou=
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> to me like gold plating, which we developers love to do ;-)
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> I wonder how slow it would be.


Producing output in xml isn't just for WAP and PalmPilot users. It makes=20
life much simpler for webmasters - see for example http://whump.com=20
which runs on XML (there are countless other sites that do too).

As for Palm... when I talked about wikis at work, one of the first=20
questions I was asked was "can you access it and edit it with a Palm?"=20
(of course, I work in a mobile phone company, so they are interested in=20
anything "mobile") - but I don't think it's so far-fetched to think=20
people will be doing it some time from now.



Tara

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