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[Phpwiki-talk] raw/naked/embeded wiki?

[Adam S. <ad...@pe...>]

I'm not sure on the exact terminology, I think NakedWiki is closest based
on MeatBall.  Anyway what I'm talking about is no headers/footers but just
raw HTML formatted wiki text (including links though).

Anyway based on PhpWiki's template system I'm just curious if this is
something which could be easily accomplished?

Adam.

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] raw/naked/embeded wiki?

[Gary B. <ga...@in...>]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Adam Shand wrote:

> I'm not sure on the exact terminology, I think NakedWiki is closest based
> on MeatBall.  Anyway what I'm talking about is no headers/footers but just
> raw HTML formatted wiki text (including links though).
>
> Anyway based on PhpWiki's template system I'm just curious if this is
> something which could be easily accomplished?

What I'd really _love_ to see would be a wiki engine that generated XML,
so that you could then format both wiki and non-wiki pages through an XML
application server. That would be embeddable in anything, and IMO truly
cool.

Not that I'm volunteering to do it or anything. My cup runneth over
already, so to speak.

Gary

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Re: [Phpwiki-talk] raw/naked/embeded wiki?

[Adam S. <ad...@pe...>]

> What I'd really _love_ to see would be a wiki engine that generated
> XML, so that you could then format both wiki and non-wiki pages
> through an XML application server. That would be embeddable in
> anything, and IMO truly cool.

i'm not overly familiar with xml.  there have been discussions about using
rss/rdf as an output format, would that do what you want?

if not what do you envision?

> Not that I'm volunteering to do it or anything. My cup runneth over
> already, so to speak.

yeah, that's the way it goes, it's still interesting to toss ideas around
though.

adam.

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] raw/naked/embeded wiki?

[Gary B. <ga...@in...>]

On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Adam Shand wrote:

> > What I'd really _love_ to see would be a wiki engine that generated
> > XML, so that you could then format both wiki and non-wiki pages
> > through an XML application server. That would be embeddable in
> > anything, and IMO truly cool.
>
> i'm not overly familiar with xml.  there have been discussions about using
> rss/rdf as an output format, would that do what you want?

An ordinary web server runs like this:

 PHP stuff   -> [runs] -> HTML -> +------------+
 CGI stuff   -> [runs] -> HTML -> | web server | --> to browser
 Static html -------------------> +------------+

An XML application server runs like this:

 PHP stuff   -> [runs] -> XML -> +--------+
 CGI stuff   -> [runs] -> XML -> | XML AS | -> html -> +------------+
 Static XML -------------------> +--------+            | web server | -> ...
 (Static HTML) --------------------------------------> +------------+

Here, all the formatting (headers, footers, sidebars, what have you) gets
added in the XML server. What's more, you don't _just_ have to convert
the XML to HTML, you could add templates to convert it to text, PDF, Wiki
syntax, whatever.

Gary