Ben, one difference seems to be that type/doc takes html markup, and 
type/page uses MarkDown. When I look at the Infogami tutorial (type/doc) 
in edit mode it appears as html. When I look at, say, the "Writing bots" 
page (type/page) [1] I see what looks like MarkDown coding.

I admit that I've never mastered MarkDown although, as with other wiki 
markup rules, those who know it seem to love it.

kc
[1] http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/bots

On 3/15/13 5:07 PM, Ben Companjen wrote:
> Hi Anand, all,
>
> I was wondering why there are separate types for "pages" and "docs".
> Both types have a title (a string) and a body (of type /type/text),
> but it seems that the text in a page is fully transformed from
> wikitext to HTML and docs are not, so that effectively, in docs only a
> subset of the wikitext is supported.
>
> I was doing a slight modification of the Infogami tutorial to make
> Firefox render it correctly, but noticed that a wikilink like
> [[/help]] was not turned into a link. However, the reason that Firefox
> underlined the whole table of contents when hovering over it was
> because <a ..></a> was transformed into <a/>. Linebreaks are also
> converted to <br>s (but possibly not always, must check this out a bit
> more).
>
> And then there is also /type/content (also just title and body), so
> I'm a bit confused with respect to the specific purposes that each of
> these types fulfill.
>
> Ben
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