[wiki-standards] Re: wiki-standards Digest, Vol 22, Issue 8

[Mike Haseler]

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> Creole can go much further, and so we developed a fair amount of XML 
> technology around it, to improve portability, storage, independence. 
> First to be named is an XML-based representation of Creole as well as 
> XSLT scripts to convert the XML to Creole and vice versa (plus code). 
> You can reach it from the Creole wiki or directly here:
> 
> http://www.riehle.org/wiki-creole/
> 
Dirk,

I was going to keep quiet today because I've said enough and as Janne 
quite rightly points out I'm a "here to today gone tomorrow grumbler".

However, I can't help giving praise where it is due (which is why I end 
up engaged in trench warfare with so many different blog/wiki syntaxes).

You have done a great job creating the EBNF grammar and this is key to 
creating a specification. Indeed, I really do think anyone who has 
contributed toward Creole project should be thanked for their effort 
(even if it looks to me like their effort is going to go to waste) 
because perhaps, with a massive change of attitude, it could be the 
first step toward a specification.

And as Janne quite rightly said, my said group is my family, and when 
the first thing they want is Glarey red text, I realised that not only 
is Creole abysmally inadequate, but even my much fuller featured "wish 
list" implementation doesn't have the scope to satisfy the full horror 
of an 9 year old's idea of a perfect wiki-page!

And I'm beginning to realise my goal is simply unachievable given the 
current lack of any suitable wiki standard.

Mike