Rails - Jun 2006 - Is possible to mantain a co0l blog without broke XHTML?

I started to write content in textarea in HTML then I migrated to 
BBCode, then I came back HTML thanks to TinyMCE, now I see with interest 
textile and markaby, but will they be "THE solution"?

As "internal" language anybody is free to use the language he/she 
prefers but about the future? Probably you won''t be able to reuse it in
another platform/cms

Anybody wants an easy way to add texts, code, photos, videos,.. into the 
website, but there are 2 completly different ways to do it:

WYSIWYM
wiki, markaby, textile,.. You "should" never get invalid code using 
these tecniques and you could use some kind of helper to get common 
code, but you have to write imaging the output and sometimes you have to 
remember to escape something

WYSIWYG
You get easly what you want, but sometime the code could be dirty and 
useless.
But you use HTML inside so you''ll be sure that every cms could import 
it.

What about an hybrid?
You write a simple HTML code via WYSIWYG editor and then re-parse it 
again with Rails-aCMS-orAnythingElse.

Probably the best solution for the code highlightning is Coderay 
(http://coderay.rubychan.de/); you write a code like:

<code lang="ruby">
Class Test
end
</code>

and you get:

<code lang="ruby">
<span class="keyword">Class</span> Test
<span class="keyword">end</span>
</code>

The same concept could be used also for other kind of objects

I mean:

<img alt="An wonderful image" src="image.jpg" />

Could became after reparsed:

<div>
 <img alt="A wonderful image" src="image.jpg" />
 <div class="cap">A wonderful image</div>
</div>

What do you think about it? Do you have better ideas about how to 
mantain a clean and indipendent internal code?

A problem could be that parse alwais is heavy but with caching this 
isn''t a problem anymore.

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a random XHTML blog with XHTML broken
http://blog.innerewut.de/articles/page/3

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