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• Subject: RE: Out of topic or out of interest?
• From: Bill de hÓra <dehora@e...>
• Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 11:47:10 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric van der Vlist [mailto:vdv@d...] 
>
> For instance, in the "niche" of schema languages, James Clark 
> has shown 
> with his compact non XML syntax for RELAX NG that non XML is more
>  concise and readable.

Ditto XPath.
 

> For web authoring I tend to completely abandon XHTML for Wiki 
> Markup (no 
> more angle brackets and just a small list of escape characters).

I did precisely the same thing. I moved a good amount of wikitext
to an XML for wikitext, then XHTML, then back to wikitext and
managed to throw away some clunky XSLT for good measure in favour
of some simple java1.4 regex code. 

I think the fact that wikitext /is/ what you edit a wiki in, should
have given me a clue before I undertook such a mindless munge...

Bill de hÓra

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