[xwiki-devs] [Discussion] Designing the new Rendering/Parsing component/API

[Erin Schnabel]

On 9/11/07, Jean-Vincent Drean <jv at xwiki.com> wrote:
> > Yes this is like solution 1 in that you cannot mix syntaxes within a
> > given document whereas solution 2 allows that.
>
> I don't see benefits from being able to mix different syntaxes within
> a document so I'd give +1 to solution 1 (with a meta).
>
> In fact I'm not sure to see the advantages of a syntax choice at the
> document level (I'd have naturaly put it at the wiki level). Sorry if
> it has already been discussed on the list.

While it would seemingly be confusing, one reason I can think of is
migration... pile of old documents with old syntax, want new documents
to use new syntax... (what a headache that would be.. but if you have
gobs of docs... )

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'Waste of a good apple' -Samwise Gamgee