Hello Brion,
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 17:15:36 -0700, Brion Vibber wrote:
For inter-wiki moves (to meta or sep11), bot-runners,
and spot-backups,
it would be useful to have a way to grab individual pages in a
machine-friendly package, which can be easily popped into or out of
another wiki or other software.
Sample and (perhaps?) discussion of proposed XML wrapper format:
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_import/export
If you really want it to make machine-friendly the wiki-markup
must be "xmlized" as well, so [[revision]] should be changed
to something like <link type="wiki">revision</link> (and
type="external"
if it's an external link). The same should happen with
tables of course and other things like lists, pictures, ...
As well there should be a XSL that is missing at the moment as well.
... but I like the idea ;-) At the end we can offer a web-service-
interface for queries from other systems, e.g. for meta-crawlers
using the Google- and Wikipedia-API for collecting informations
about a specific topic.
Regards, Lothar
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