Re: [Phpwiki-talk] linking scheme and markup

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

On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Tara Star wrote:

> In the present case, I can't obtain the desired result just by modifying
> the css files - I need to go in the templates, and in transform.php too
> (and GodKnowsWhereElse).
>
> See what I mean?

Yes, CSS is not enough. I know, I've worked on content management systems
for five years now. :-) I'll continue to think about it. It depends on
what we get with a "typical" PHP install. My goal has always been to make
PhpWiki as accessible as possible: to admins, to programmers, and to end
users.

Your problem is an admin problem: you can't tailor the output at the low
level you want to. When XSLT is shipped with PHP and comes in a default
installation, it would make sense to go this route.

What I want to avoid is making the end user rebuild PHP in order to use
PhpWiki. It would never get used in that case. I have never used Galeon
for this very reason: it wants all the latest Gnome stuff and I have no
patience to install it all.

I've wanted to do XHTML output for a while. That might be a good middle
step for now.

cheers
~swain

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