[pmwiki] Re: [Pmwiki-users] Whitepaper about markup strategy

[Bernhard.Weichel at t-online.de]

Jonathan

thanks for your comments, I have updated the Introduction section
accordingly.

Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:


>>
>> http://www.b-weichel.2in.de/weichel/pmwiki.php/WhitePapers/MarkupStrategy
>>
> Why these implementation requirements?  Wikis are meant to be
> "processed" by humans.  Computer processing is secondary.  So "easy to
> parse" is an author requirement first and if that makes the
> implementor's job a little tougher, then that's okay; he only has to
> implement the thing once, the authors spend *MUCH* more time
> reading/writing the markup.

When making proposals, it must fit into the current processing model of
PmWiki

>
> So, why should it be "easy to convert to XML" instead of "possible to
> convert to XML" and "technically easy to separate markup from
> contents" instead of "technically possible to separate markup from
> contents"? Why must the conversion principles be simple?

Again due to the line by line processing model of PmWiki.


>
> -Scott