On 9/25/09 6:11 PM, Robert Rohde wrote: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Platonides<[email protected]> wrote: >> Brian wrote: >> XML is hard to edit. That's the reason wikitext was created, to "fix" >> the issues with the, even easier, html. >> Now, it is being proposed to add a XML processing on top of wikitext to >> describe templates. > > <snip> > > Unless expressly forbidden by the software implementation, I would > assume that "helpful" Wikipedians would very quickly write template > description templates to replace the XML and give it a "nice" wiki > interface. So, in practice, the question of whether XML is hard to > edit will probably be moot and reduced solely to the issue that > templates are hard to edit.
It's unlikely that many people will ever see or edit the XML as there'll be a perfectly good structured user interface. -- brion _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
