[Mono-docs-list] Wiki Markup for ECMA documents.

[Jason Prell]

On Nov 27, 2005, at 3:04 PM, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> Hello,
>
>     Am doing some hacks to enable Wiki-like editing on our Web-based
> interface of MonoDoc, just like we do in our client version of it.
> Hoping that maybe this way we could get more contributions to our  
> docs.
>
>     For the sake of simplicity though, I think it would be useful  
> if we
> allowed Wiki-like markup for it.  People are already familiar with the
> MediaWiki markup.
>
>     The trick of course is that I know very little about XSLT, and am
> wondering if a kind soul could whip up the code necessary to go  
> from our
> ECMA XML to MediaWiki markup and back.

Generally, when using XSLT, you need to load the entire document into  
memory before applying transformations. I think at some point, you  
would encounter memory stress and possible system instability.

To avoid this you could use SAX, but it is a real pain to maintain  
processing state. Two recommendations I would make are: use eXist as  
an embedded database to store the XML document and then process the  
transformations, or use STX for transformations.

eXist: http://exist.sourceforge.net
STX: http://stx.sourceforge.net/documents

-Jason