2009/9/25 Dmitriy Sintsov <ques...@rambler.ru>: > XML is used to store "human-produced" rich formatted text by many > standalone and web apps. XML parsers are also very strict and spitting > errors. As it's been mentioned recently, XML is really good for bots, > too, for that reason (the input is "error-free" tree). > I wonder, If the browsers can handle tag soup, most probably MediaWiki > parser can handle wikitext soup, too? Eg, instead of parsing error, > properly close the nodes. The existing wikitext of millions of articles > has to be converted by commandline upgrade script in case the wikitext > will be abandoned. Though I wonder whether it's possible to keep > wikitext editing mode for backwards compatibility by using the same > method online.
Wikitext started as a shorthand for HTML. The horrible things that have happened since then are from ad-hoc additions to a parser and no formal spec, leaving the parser behaviour as, literally, the only definition. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
