Re: [Phpwiki-talk] XML?

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

On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 22:57:51 -0000
"Lawrence Akka" <Law...@th...> wrote:

> Just wondering what the position was on XML dumps.  I see some 
> refs to in in the code, but it obvously isn't complete.

Yes, that's my fault.

I started to add XML dumps (mostly to replace the zip-dump functionality),
then
got bogged down while trying to decide on the syntax.

  Should RDF be used for the page meta-data?  (RDF having been designed
    for that purpose.)  (This would also fit in well with RSS generation.)

  Consideration for ability to edit wiki pages via XML-ized methods:
    Think about SOAP?  How does this tie in with WebDAV?

  Or just use a more ad hoc document-like syntax.  Neither RDF nor SOAP
are
    very document-like in structure.

At this point, I know nothing about WebDAV, not much about SOAP, and a
little
about RDF and RSS.  That's where I stopped.

(See http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?RssExtensionModuleForWikis for
the latest
news on the wiki RSS front.)


So, if we're serious about XML dumps, I think we need to put some serious
thought
and discussion into the format of the dumps.  If you want to pick up the
ball
on that, that would be great.  (I don't mind doing the coding, once
there's
agreement on a suitable XML syntax.)

Jeff