On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 15:22, Mike Orr wrote:
> It would also help to have an option of "accept the source format
> without conversion and serve it as is without touching its internal
> structure" alongside "convert the source document to an in-between
> format so it's easy to reconvert into any output format."

In the case of a Wiki, it's important that some things be changed --
specifically, intra-Wiki (and perhaps inter-Wiki) links, maybe other
stuff later.  However, in the XML/SGML markup, it should be safe: you
would not unintentionally add Wiki-specific markups.

However, this means there has to be multiple ways to import/edit data,
which is what I planning.  So, rather than have a document marked as
untouchable, you would simply import the document in a particular manner
(perhaps with user preferences, user agent detection, a URL, or a
combination of these), which wouldn't endanger it.

Though, now that I think about it, plain documents should be importable
as well -- images, for instance, can't be meaningfully processed.  I was
thinking of adding a mime type to the page description, maybe
text/x-ww-wiki for normal Wiki documents, and you could mark something
as text/html to keep it from being processed.  But I don't expect it to
be necessary.

  Ian



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