Paŭlo: why I changed the "XML" bits in the article.

2011-01-15T22:20:16Z

why I changed the "XML" bits in the article.

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== Help system topic markup - XML ==

This was written here:
: ''The markup that is allowed in the text key within a topic tag is in XML, a markup language similar to WML. Note that this is the only time that markup language is used as a value. ''
In fact, the used language may have been looking like XML to someone who never really used XML, but it certainly is not XML. XML has its attributes (keys and values) inside the start tag, not between the start and end tag. (Also, XML is hierarchical, while this is only one-level, as it looks.)

The example
text="<ref>dst=income_and_upkeep text='Link to Income and Upkeep topic'</ref>"
would have looked in XML (as the inner language) like one of these:
text="<ref dst='income_and_upkeep' text='Link to Income and Upkeep topic'></ref>"
text="<ref dst='income_and_upkeep' text='Link to Income and Upkeep topic' />"
text="<ref dst='income_and_upkeep'>Link to Income and Upkeep topic</ref>"

Thus I changed the description of this language, also throwing away this "you have to convert from WML to XML", as our current wiki seems not to have any problems with angled brackets. I hope it is better understandable now.
-- [[User:Paŭlo|Paŭlo]] 22:20, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

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Paŭlo: why I changed the "XML" bits in the article.