On Tuesday 15 June 2004 20:17, Finlay McWalter wrote:
Jim Higson wrote:
It's a
noble idea, but doing it properly (where it could replace the
normal mode of editing on a mature wiki like wikipedia) is *hard*.
Agreed, but I've got a year and want a good hard project :)
:)
I'm not sure the result would be worth the effort, but I'm sure you'll
learn all kinds of interesting things along the way (and hopefully
produce some useful modules doing so too).
Yep. This is for the final project of my degree, so I've tried to find
something academically acceptable that has a chance of being used in the real
world.
Not to boss you around, but *do that bit first* :)
Good point, wouldn't want to fall into the Java Trap :)
I'll probably develop the RTE as I need it.
I'm really not convinced a wysiwyg editor is
really all that necessary
(we have lots of technically challenged contributors banging aware
regardless). But a decent java parser that takes mediawiki markup and
builds a nice JDOM (or whatever) tree - that would have all kinds of
handy uses (and I think your editor will need it anyway).
Yes, my plan is to go:
wikitext --Java--> XML(to a wikitext expressive w3c XML schema) --XSL--> XHTML
So even if the editor isn't used, the XSL could be rewritten in future and the
code used to translate wikitext to PDF client side. (ie for a printed version
or 'export to PDF' function)
--
Jim