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| I am impressed by the work that the WikiCreole community has accomplished -- normalizing common markup across the many wiki engines is no small feat. |
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| However it is time I think to push into a new territory that addresses the needs of wiki applications, wiki books, wiki documents, and other upcoming uses of the paradigm. In particular Creole 2.0 should include a standard markup providing: |
| * fine-grained XHTML support |
| * robust XSL support including pagesets |
| * complete support for semantic annotations & queries |
| * core semantic models of a wiki and its articles |
| * interwiki support and namespace standardizations |
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| One other topic, as I saw elsewhere in this wiki: Is Creole a Waste of Time, i.e., Why not use HTML? My answer is a resounding no! |
| * Most humans loathe entering HTML, for very good reasons |
| * HTML evolution is throttled by certain software houses(hard evidence: XHTML 2.0) whose interest is NOT users needs but rather preserving the commercial viability of their (complex/expensive) product suites which emit XHTML |
| * To be successful, the "Semantic Web" absolutely must be an evolution of current technologies -- a direct plea for RDF/A atop XHTML -- rather than a revolution featuring wholly new technologies -- a direct slap at the gathering notion of RDF triples exchange. |
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| I suspect there's enough technos in this group willing to help surface a blueprint that establishes wikis as the essential platform for delivery of web 3.0... if there is, actually and truly, any //other// alternative for web 3.0, then I'd sure like to hear about it. |
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| == Wiki Model == |
| I think a "wiki" is a collection of articles and documents, a document itself being a collection of articles. (Incidentally I prefer "story" to "article" so as to distinguish from grammatical and other uses of "article" and it gives a clear path to tie into emerging argumentation models.) |
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| A wiki "story" then is composed of one or more pages. I then look to XSL for the definition of a page, which divides rendition into repeatable header/footer areas & a body area. (In this regard, you can use "heading" or "caption" in the manner that you now seem to use for "header"). A "subpage" is another matter altogether, for its existence is functionally dependent on that of a superordinate page; a subpage often has overflow content from its superpage but it could be an earlier version of the superpage; in other words, a subpage contains material that is effectively attached to another page. |
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| A wiki page is a container for content which, because a single story can be spread across multiple pages, means a single page may contain only //part of// a story. Page content can be of many varieties, e.g., paragraphs, tables, and lists. Many documents contain **titled and sequentially-numbered sets of paragraphs & subsections** which we both would call a "section" (as XHTML 2.0 does). |
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| A document is often divided into front-matter, body, and back-matter; I don't believe that a story is similarly divided. Thus the body of a page for a story within a document may be the container for content that is part of one of these three document divisions. |
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| Some of these concepts are perhaps better represented in a 'semantic page structure' as follows: |
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| | **legend:** | X::Y //where Y is-a X// | X:Y //where X has-a Y// | ?=zero or one\\*=zero or many \\+=one or many |
| {{{ |
| wiki : document* story* |
| document : abstract? story+ division+ |
| division :: frontmatter | bodymatter | backmatter |
| division : story+ block* |
| story :: abstract |
| story : page+ |
| page : layout* subpage* ordinal |
| layout :: header | body | footer | sidebar |
| layout : caption? block* column* ordinal |
| block :: division | section | line | |
| heading | graf | list | hr | |
| table | preblock| bquote |
| block : block* flow* ordinal |
| section : heading? graf* footnote* comment* |
| heading : seq_label title |
| seq_label : seq_label* sep designation |
| designation : prefix? (cardinal* | letter*) suffix? |
| list :: ul | ol | dl | ilist |
| list : list_item |
| list_item :: ordered_ | unordered_ |
| list_item : heading? block* flow* ordinal |
| ordered_ : cardinal |
| table : topcaption? theader? tbody* tfooter? |
| bottomcaption? ordinal |
| flow :: link | em | strong | img | br | ... |
| styled_ | annotated_ | inserted_ | |
| struck_ | imported_ | calculated_ | |
| footnoted_ | redacted_ | queried | ... |
| flow : flow* pcdata}}} |
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