On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 01:33:29AM +0700, Minh L? Ng???c wrote:
>    I think convert to xml is not too difficult because almost of wikitext
>    constructs have already been converted to html day after day.

Installed Base.

In the abstract you may be correct.

But Mediawiki *must* support Wikipedia, and converting 2 million plus
articles simply isn't going to happen -- I gave the idea up about 8
months back up *the mailing list archive*, which I suggest you explore;
this has already been hashed out.

IE: PINCH!

Cheers,
-- jra
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