Many wikis do not allow any HTML markup at all, but use simpler markup methods to indicate bulleted lists, headers, and so on.
Note
Check for examples of possible markup schemes, for example, markdown http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/, REST http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html, or for markup that does allow some HTML–the mediawiki software at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki.
Consider the following:
Will the user understand some HTML markup or opt for no HTML markup at all?
What will the wiki contain? Just text or also external references or references to binary objects (like images) stored in the wiki?
For this wiki, we will implement a mixed approach. We will allow some HTML markup like <b>
and <ul>
but not any links. References to topics in the wiki might be entered as [Topic]
, whereas links to external pages might be denoted as {www.example.org}
. Images stored in the wiki may be referred to as <143>
. Each type...