On 8/29/06, Simetrical <Simetrical+wikitech(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I don't know what "in-band" and
"out-of-band" mean ([[Out of band]]
doesn't help either), but if the diff engine parses the XML, it can
look for a) changes in structure/markup and b) changes in content.
I think what's meant is that with XML, it's basically trivial to
separate text from markup - depending on how you receive the XML, that
may already have been done for you. The structure and formatting thus
occupies a completely separate "band" to the text being formatted.
Whereas Wikitext is a nightmare to parse :)
Steve