Re: [Phpwiki-talk] linking scheme and markup

[Steve W. <sw...@pa...>]

On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Tara Star wrote:

> Steve Wainstead wrote:
>
> > However, I don't think anyone will be wanting to edit Wiki pages on their
> > WAP phones or Palm Pilots anytime soon. Who knows? At the moment it sounds
> > to me like gold plating, which we developers love to do ;-)
>
> Producing output in xml isn't just for WAP and PalmPilot users. It makes
> life much simpler for webmasters - see for example http://whump.com
> 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
> questions I was asked was "can you access it and edit it with a Palm?"

Figures! :-)

I didn't mean to imply that XML is only for WAP and PDAs. I've also wanted
an XML dump feature for PhpWiki; that is, all the pages can be dumped as
one huge XML file. But Jeff's zip dumps work so well there's been no need.

~swain

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