Wiki Syntax Abstraction Format

This page is maintaned and used by Max Völkel and Sebastian Schaffert.

Requirements / Goals / Features

 * should render in browser
 * should be XML
 * easier to use than XHTML
 * get accepted even from PERL hackers

Discussion

 * text entry vs. meta data - in two different namespaces?

Text

 * paragraph
 * link (
 * evtl mit Typ
 * existiert/existiert nicht
 * external vs. internal link
 * OPTIONAL: InterWiki Links
 * listen (numeriert, unnummeriert, definition), list items,
 * tables (OPTIONAL: link to thumbnail)
 * headlines

Page
A page is more than just text. :-)

Design
Goal: enough information to render correclty via XSLT as wiki source or wiki view
 * wiki syntax
 * list, paragraph, table, headline, bold, italic
 * meta data
 * last changed on
 * last changed by

Links:
 * target
 * type
 * does the target exist?

Discussions
 * http://usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?WikiInterchangeFormat
 * http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiInterchangeFormat
 * http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?WikiMarkupStandardWorkingGroup

Suggested Formats:
 * http://www.altheim.com/specs/iwml/
 * http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?WikiXmlDtd
 * http://www.fgranger.com/cgi-bin/view/Development/XhtmlForWiki?sortcol=4&table=1&up=1
 * http://www.fgranger.com/cgi-bin/view/Development/CurrentXhtmlToWikiFilters

Related Work
The export function in MediaWiki is currently agnostic to the textual content of a page:

element mediawiki element siteinfo element sitename    sample: "Wiki@OntoWorld" element base        sample: http://wiki.ontoworld.org/index.php/Main_Page element generator   sample: "MediaWiki 1.5.0" element case        sample: "first-letter"    ????? element namespaces element namespace sample: "Media" attribute key   sample: "-2" element page element title element id          sample: "1357" element revision element id        sample: "1575" element timestamp sample: "2005-11-09T18:38:13Z" element contributor element ip      sample: "84.203.178.21" element text      sample: "..... just the plain source ... "