Building GeekSpeak.org, Part II
Posted by Lyle Troxell Wed, 09 Aug 2006 08:07:00 GMT
Editing XML is Hard… mText
In part one of Building GeekSpeak.org I explained that we have a content management system that uses a layer of XML. But hand editing XML is a pain. HTML, generally a form of XML, is also kinda difficult to edit by hand, that’s why the blog world has adopted markup. A comon form of this sort of markup, which I use in this blog, is Textile. Generally this allows a user to use a simple text format that is translated to html. Miles Elam whipped out some Java and made mText, a markup that transforms to our SimpleDoc xml format.
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