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Originally Posted by theking12345
I take it if the articles themselves are actually going to be in *.txt format, the hyperlinks wont be there? The blue links that pop up every other word that make it really hard to leave the site because there's always another interesting article.
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Using text files sounds sensible as wikipedia articles are really just text with some markup. Links to other wikipedia pages should be possible as it will just need to load another article, something the plugin will need to do anyway.
Looking at a web browser might be a good idea as many of the problems will be similar. I would think most existing browsers will be so complex that stripping them down would be impractical. HTML is a lot more complicated than the simple markup on most wikipedia articles.
I'm not really sure what the advantages of using xml over the existing wiki markup are. It looks like it would increase the size of the files and make them harder to parse.