Re: [Phpwiki-talk] linking scheme and markup

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

On Wed, 7 Nov 2001 02:06:24 -0500 (EST)
"Steve Wainstead" <sw...@pa...> wrote:

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

I don't know much about XHTML, so fill me in.
Steve, Tara, those who know: If we move to XHTML what are the
implications for those who use older browsers?  What exactly
are the practicalities involved in converting to XHTML?
Is it really much of a new paradigm (if so, I don't see it
yet) or is it just syntactical cleanup?

It would be nice to clean up the output (HTML) generation
some.  As Tara has discovered the HTML is scattered, 
mostly between the templates, lib/transform.php, various
functions in lib/stdlib.php, with the remainder everywhere
else.

But I agree with Steve, that until/unless there's a widespread,
easily accessible XSLT converter available for PHP it's too early
to move completely in that direction.

> I've also wanted an XML dump feature for PhpWiki; that is,
> all the pages can be dumped as one huge XML file.

(Or indididual XML files.)

> But Jeff's zip dumps work so well there's been no need.

Since i dooed it, I can say it: the use of MIME for storing metadata
in the zip files was/is somewhat poorly concieved.

I'm all for moving to XML for page dumpage.  The only drawback,
is that (for awhile, at least) we'd have to support three methods
of undumping (zip, serialized pages, XML).  (The other drawback,
of course, is that someone would have to write the code.)