XmlWiki

xmlWiki is a hack not done the proper way: it is a modification of the index.php page offering new features which are all maintained from editing normal wiki articles.

• All articles are XML
• An additional xml page allows editing the data aspect of an article as a tree.
• A permissions structure offering basic read/write control over articles with users and groups.
• PHP Functions can be created and maintained by developers and can be dynamically applied to articles before rendering.
• Articles can made to automatically publish remotely over HTTP or FTP when edits are saved.

The hack requires four hooks into the current Wiki environment

INIT

• get wiki/request env
• get article
• permissions

INPUT

• if valid xml posted, update article-dom
• put into POST as text for MediaWiki

OUTPUT

• trap MediaWiki output
• extract content and links
• add xml link
• render transform article if view/preview
• render description-textarea if editing
• render xml-textarea(xw.xml) if $action=xwXML
• render wiki content if special
• publish article if saving

FUNCTION

• get article as dom
• etxract hrefs from text
• message

ADMIN

• enable patch
• disable patch

Implimenting the Hack

Use the xmlwiki.php script to enable or disable the xml parsing of MediaWiki content.