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Re: Twiki & XML |
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Thu, 10 Oct 2002 21:45:55 +1300 |
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On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 09:21:43AM +0200, Quim Gil wrote:
> Sorry for bothering you. I'm looking for information about Twiki
> compatibility and data export to databases, modularization, XML... in
> order to convince the programmers in our organization (decentralized,
> open source and with all the elements that make wikies succeed).
The main on-disk format for TWiki is RCS files. This is used for both
binary and text content. Within this format the deltra-tree and version
are the only fields used.
Further information can be found in the man page rcsfile(5).
Also look at the RcsLite development work. It would be quite
straightforward for a perl-dev to work from this to convert TWiki rcs
files to some sort of XML.
> I've been diving for dozens of topics at twiki.org and I haven't found
> the core of the information I was looking for. I've seen you are a
> contributor that has spent a lot of time thinking about these issues.
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> Could you point me to the appropriate page(s) explaining how
> (un)compatible Twiki is with databases and XML? Our programmers are a
> bit worried about the mid term, having to migrate to database management
> systems.
I'm not sure now XML relates to DBs, but using RcsLite as a basis it
would be possible to work towards something with a DB backend.
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> Thank you and congratulations for the good work it seems you're doing. :)
Actually its mostly Peter, John, Richard and Mike recently.
Nicholas
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