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On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 13:11, Mike Champion wrote: > I'm of two minds on this ... on one hand it sounds like a return to > the Bad Old Days and will require continuing human intervention to > cleanup the inevitable not-so-smart ASCII before it can be converted > to XML rather than one-time human intervention to teach markup skills > to the authors. On the other, it leverages what humans do best -- > deal with patterns, templates, informal conventions -- and lets > computers do what they do best -- generate and parse formal syntaxes, > putting XML further behind the scenes, perhaps where it belongs. This is a lot of where I hope to go with both Regular Fragmentations and MOE. Right now both only work in contexts where the information arrives in an XML-like environment - SAX2 - but I'm hoping to evolve them toward an environment which accepts lexical conventions other than XML and can present them in a 'canonical markup view' or somesuch which happens to be XML. I'm starting to think that XML is canonical for markup. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com
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