On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Trevor Parscal <[email protected]> wrote:
> Oh please no!
>
> - Trevor
>
> On 12/7/10 7:26 AM, Platonides wrote:
>> Daniel Friesen wrote:
>>> PHP ->  XSL doesn't quite feel like much of an improvement in terms of
>>> cutting down on the verbose redundant code boilerplate required to
>>> insert something.
>>> ie:<xsl:value-of select="title"/>  doesn't look much better than<?php
>>> $this->text("title") ?>, as opposed to {$title|escape:html}.
>> This seems an argument for using the preprocessor for the skin system,
>> in order to include the variables into the raw html.
>>

I was first like wtf as well, but on the other hand this way skin
building would be much more accesibles for non-programmer mediawiki
users. Regular wiki users do know wikitext, as opposed to PHP. I'm not
entirely sure though that this would be good for your sanity. I
wouldn't discard the idea immediately, insane as it may seem.

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