general Wiki format question and Python Wiki markup parsing libraries

[chris]

John Roth wrote:

> "Jarek Zgoda" <jzgoda at gazeta.usun.pl> wrote in message
> news:c87e40$mbj$3 at nemesis.news.tpi.pl...
> 
>>chris <csad7 at yahoo.com> pisze:
>>
>>
>>>is there something like a "standard" wiki format at all, or at least one
>>>that is widely used?
>>
>>Don't think so. I saw more than 10 "simplified markups", of which nearly
>>all was more complicated than original HTML.
> 
> 
> Well, I think the "simplified" seems to be a tradeoff in
> terms of fewer keystrokes, rather than any conceptual
> simplicity. If you really want to simplify things, please come
> up with a little WISIWIG editor rather than yet more
> line noise.
> 
> John Roth
> 
> 
>>-- 
>>Jarek Zgoda
>>http://jpa.berlios.de/
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> 
> 

well, i think it is not fewer keystrokes but to be able to easily read 
the text (like here in this email without the html tag noise in e.g. 
javadoc) when working on the xml/xsl file but at the same time to be 
able to generate a structured xhtml documentation from the same text.
so something like restructured text seems like the best option to me for 
now.

chris