On 8 February 2012 15:06, Oren Bochman <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think that an xml subset is the ideal should be the underlying format. It's 
> the best known technology, has mature development tools.
> It could be parsed to and written to most efficiently by browser, and even 
> the editor could be simplified by using it.


This is likely. But the magical key to the issue is: it doesn't actually matter.

The important thing about the eventual intermediate format is that it
will be *properly defined* and can be manipulated. It will be things
that are processed in a particular way.

This format could be stored in whatever format is convenient - XML,
bytecode, cat GIFs, a version of the existing wikitext format - as a
properly defined syntax, we can arbitrarily transform any version into
any other version as needed.

Hopefully this is possible ...


- d.

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