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Norman Walsh wrote: > Balisage 2010 Contest - Solve the Modern Tower of Babel > > As part of the Balisage 2010 Conference[1], MarkLogic[2] has put forth > a challenge in the form of a contest. The goal of the contest is to > encourage markup experts to review and to research the current state > of wiki markup languages and to generate a proposal that serves to > de-babelize the current state of affairs for the long haul. > > Wikis: Solve the modern tower of babel > OK, Here is my entry. 0) Rule out that you are actually trying to program rather than capture thoughts efficiently: if you are, use a Domain Specific Language (little language) approach or programming language that supports them, such as Scala.* There are open source tools that support this. 1) If you need a standard Wiki, use Creole.** There are open source tools that support this. 2) If you need something more complicated, use SGML and convert to XML as needed.*** There are open source tools that support this. 3) If you need something more than this, gather a community of like-minded people and invent a new standard. 4) If you cannot get a community, just make something up, release it open source, and see if other people get attracted to it. * http://programming-scala.labs.oreilly.com/ch11.html ** http://wikicreole.org/wiki/Home *** http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/1377 Cheers Rick Jelliffe
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