{"id":356,"date":"2004-03-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-14T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2004\/03\/15\/289\/"},"modified":"2004-03-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-14T23:00:00","slug":"289","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2004\/03\/15\/289\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wiki syntax problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.intertwingly.net\/blog\/1737.html\" title=\"Sam Ruby: Wikiwiki, What?\">Sam Ruby<\/a>: &#8222;One key problem that we identified was the wiki syntax &#8211; both from a learning curve point of view and from a wiki tool lock-in perspective. It would be really nice if we could define a unified inport\/export syntax that tools can use, either to PUT data to a wiki, or to migrate data from one wiki to another.<\/p>\n<p>An obvious candidate would be (X)HTML, as every wiki provides some form of export to (X)HTML today. The problem is import: one should not have to implement a renderer comparable to IE or Mozilla to do a credible job. A profile or subset is called for.&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atox.sourceforge.net\/atox.html\" title=\"Atox 0.2 User Manual\">Atox<\/a> has a list of plain text &#8222;markup languages&#8220;, pointing to <a href=\"http:\/\/txt2html.sourceforge.net\/\" title=\"txt2html - Text to HTML converter\">txt2html<\/a> &#8211; why isn&#8217;t this format used for Wikis?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Ruby: &#8222;One key problem that we identified was the wiki syntax &#8211; both from a learning curve point of view and from a wiki tool lock-in perspective. It would be really nice if we could define a unified inport\/export syntax that tools can use, either to PUT data to a wiki, or to migrate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}