Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Design proposal

[Bryce Harrington]

On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, [iso-8859-1] Tom Chance wrote:
> Plus of course if we swapped systems, they'd have to
> be compatible or easily interchangeable. I've been
> talking to RMS who agrees that it would be best to
> keep it simple with HTML (not XML or other text
> display technologies), not only because it will work
> with any browser (even lynx!) but also because it will
> be easy to change into other formats should we wish
> to.

Actually, it turns out that parsing and converting text
is quite doable, and in fact there are many tools and
languages developed for doing just that.  ;-)

Wiki can support direct entry of HTML, and I have also
seen it used in association with XML (DocBook) for
the FreeBooks project.  In any case, Wiki always
renders out to HTML, so if your requirement is to 
keep the display tech to HTML, you're good to go.

Bryce