On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Kirill Subbotin wrote: > Alexandru Stanoi wrote: > > > Why create exceptions? Why not have a consistent format? In my > > opinion everything should be in tags. > > Because tags are hard to write for editors. While WYSIWYG does not > give full overview/control over the document and is not available on > all systems. Thats why I think "simplified XML" has been introduced in > eZ publish.
Yeah, although the name "simplified XML" is misleading like I wrote in my other email. > > > I think it will be harder to parse if the format is a combination of > > ReST and XML. How would you apply XSLT then (if you need it)? > > "simplified XML" is just input-only format, it is not stored anywhere. > The initial idea was to use just ReST instead, but it is not enough rich for > us. > (does not support attributes for instance) > So we are trying to think out what can be both simple and powerful. > The idea was to go further with "simplified XML" and simplify not only > paragraphs > and linebreaks but other elements as well. Any ideas? I think the only thing where it makes sense is for lists as well - however, if that's too hard or causes other problems we should abandon that as well. Users are much better of if they can pick their prefered input method themselves. That should be a goal IMO. regards, Derick -- Components mailing list Components@lists.ez.no http://lists.ez.no/mailman/listinfo/components
