Simetrical wrote:
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.
Either one should be very easy and fast to diff
XML diffs are generally rather non-trivial (see e.g.
http://www.unibw.de/rz/dokumente/getFILE?fid=1076019), though it would
be somewhat easier for MediaWiki to get away with them, as we're talking
about a strongly constrained XML schema.
In any case, I don't see much point in discussing this; it's been made
abundantly clear that even comparatively minor and much saner changes in
the syntax will not happen.
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