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On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 10:06 PM, Rick Jelliffe <rjelliffe@a...> wrote:
Actually, I knew zip about markup until 1998. I just pretend to be an old fart in this community.
Well, the obvious one is that of being a bus format, so that instead of N * M conversions in your enterprise, you need only N + M. In that case, the format may be *completely* different from any of the inputs or outputs, as it needs to be comprehensive for all of them (and others as yet unthought-of).
I whispered that more quietly and smiled when I said it, so I kept my job. Sometimes, people use <quote> and <para> and <emph> just so nobody can say they're doing HTML. When I was doing sales engineering in an earlier life, I ran onto this on the client side. Client: We want an XML feed. Me: Our HTML feed is well-formed XML, so you can just use that.
Client: No, no, you don't understand. It has to be an *XML* feed. Me: It *is* an XML feed. Client: ... Me: .... GMail doesn't have rotating .sigs, but you can see mine at http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/signatures
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