WSR 8

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Goal

We want to define aservice-oriented architecture (XML over HTTP) for wiki applications to enable interactiing of different

  • parsers
  • storage engines
  • user interfaces
  • smart enhancements

We plan to create a reference implementation as well.

Participants

spec lead to be determined soon

Process

Discussion on http://wikisym.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wiki-standards with a tag of [WSR8] in the subject, to enable mail filters. Material created in this wiki should also be announced on the list.

  • If you would like to be involved, send me an email (dev/at/xam.de). When we grow, we set up a mailing list :-)

Related Work


Work

migration

As every wiki (ok, but most) render currently as HTML, it should be doable to use a cleaning tool to get XHTML out of it -- or let the wiki export XHTML in the first place. Pure XHTML makes integration still hard, because postprocessing has to guess e. g. wether a link was internal or external.

architecture

what is in a wiki?

  • user interface (server and browser OR rich client)
  • parser
    • wiki syntax -> serialisation format per page
  • rdf storage
    • add, delete triple, SPARQL
  • Analyser
  • user management
  • access rights
  • resource identity
    • url management - mapping to ids
    • id management

REST API ideas 

http://exmaple.com/wiki/SandBox     --> normal wiki
http://example.com/restwiki         --> XML info about services (as browsable XHTML subset)
http://example.com/restwiki/SandBox --> XML info about where to get page content, page versions

Unfiltered notes

Target audience 

wiki tool builders
wiki migration
wiki engine developers
AJAX UI developers

Protocol 

basically HTTP
some simple URL conventions
binary file transfer via HTTP GET
other content as XML

Format 

Requirements
 easy to consume
 easy to validate ?
 easy to read/write/check/debug
 links
Atom based?
XHTML based?
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