i just finished a conversion of a MT blog to KAYWA. Most of the posts were stored in some non-xhtml markup (yes i’m talking about you, textile) which made the task really really tedious. while i can appreciate alternative markup for data entry purposes (think wikis), i have, after this experience especially, no patience for storing markup that is not in the normal form, read, in either XHTML or another widely used XML format.
as bill de hora points out, the advantages of syntax (and increasingly, content) virtual machines are just too great. And the case for non-standard markup gets weaker every day. If there ever was one.

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