On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Jay Ashworth <[email protected]> wrote: > ---- Original Message ----- >> From: "Daniel Kinzler" <[email protected]> > >> On 05.01.2011 05:25, Jay Ashworth wrote: >> > I believe the snap reaction here is "you haven't tried to diff XML, >> > have you? >> >> A text-based diff of XML sucks, but how about a DOM based (structural) >> diff? > > Sure, but how much more processor horsepower is that going to take. > > Scale is a driver in Mediawiki, for obvious reasons.
I suspect that diffs are relatively rare events in the day to day WMF processing, though non-trivial. That said, and as much of a fan of some sort of conceptually object oriented page data approach... DOM? Really?? We're not trying to do 99% of what that does; we just need object / element contents, style and perhaps minimal other attributes, and order within a page. -- -george william herbert [email protected] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
