From: "Victor \"Zverok\" Shepelev" <vshepelev@...>
Date: 2007-04-12T06:26:03+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] ClothRed (HTML to Textile)

From: Gary Wright [mailto:gwtmp01@mac.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 12:10 AM
>
>On Apr 11, 2007, at 4:52 PM, Victor Zverok Shepelev wrote:
>> My point was, to have some intermediate format, and have couple of
>> parsers
>> TO this format and generators FROM it.
>
>Seems like XHTML would be the obvious choice for the intermediate
>format, no?
>Unless you want to reinvent that particular wheel.
>

<OT>
We, russians, say "invent the bike". In russian programming forums my usual
origin is "Bikes forever!" :)
</OT>

The question, I think, is like XML vs. YAML/JSON. Just do simpler.

I mean, for conversions like Markdown <=> Textile, XHTML as intermediate is
slightly too funny.

The overall thought was "conversion of basic logical formatting", thus,
intermediate format should only handle basic features (at the level of
Textile-like formats, not bloated XHTML-like).

V.