Comments on: VoodooPad gets an XML-RPC wiki API

By: nf0

nf0 — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Its pretty cool a few weeks ago I loaded there wiki on my powerbook and was editing it from my Win2k laptop in a browser. It was pretty cool, now if Twiki would support that API It would make it all even better, I’m sure the power of perl can make it happen.

By: Bill Seitz

Bill Seitz — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Kinda assumes that all wikis use the same SmartAscii format, eh?

http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/SmartAscii
http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/WikiStandards

By: l.m.orchard

l.m.orchard — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

It’s worse than that: VoodooPad uses RTF for its internal wiki format and plaintext for export to wiki. Though, I think when pairing up VoodooPad with some specific wiki, it wouldn’t be too annoying to use that wiki’s SmartAscii in VoodooPad. I doubt that converting between RTF and a particular implementation of SmartAscii would be a very enjoyable endeavor.

By: Janne Jalkanen

Janne Jalkanen — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Yeah, we discussed the original wiki API with the author of VoodooPad, but his requirements were sufficiently different so that we couldn't agree on a common API.

I think the key issues were around using HTTP authentication and the format of the wiki.

The divergence of the Wiki APIs is emblematic to the divergence of the entire Wiki community. Not that it's necessarily a bad thing.

By: Harald Scheirich

Harald Scheirich — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Hi, I am the author of PersonalWiki (for OS X) I am looking into implementing the wiki XMLRPC interface into my product, I am open for suggestions. PersonalWiki is based on ASCII input formats. Currently Supported are StructuredText (ZWiki) and Wikipedia. I also did my own implementation for communicating with ZWiki but a more "standard" solution would be nice.

The difference between different Wiki's input formatting is a pain I think it is not really a good thing