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• From: Sean McGrath <sean@d...>
• To: xml-dev@x...
• Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 21:53:33 +0100

[Len Bullard]
>
>But(at the risk of waking up Dr. Newcomb), what is the role 
>of markup in the ecology of systems?  Why do you  
>think individuals fought for years to get 
>it adopted?  As I've said before about groves, 
>it isn't the power of it that interests me; 
>it is the way of it; the behavior of systems 
>and environments, in short, people and tools 
>required to use it.

"""
Hi Len,
	Strangely formatted - but serious post follows.
"""

from EMail EMail, Para, Emph, Line

Root = EMail (
 Para (
  Line ("Yup. Its weird and it has more to do with people issues"),
  Line ("than it has to do with technology issues.")
 )

 Para (
  Line ("After all. It is possible to create a markup language"),
  Line (
   "with a reasonably readable syntax that is",
   Emph ("directly readable"), 
   "by, say,")
  Line ("the Python programming language.")
 )

 Para (
  Line ("For some reason, such things do not fly"),
  Line ("despite many advantages in terms of object-orientation"),
  Line ("ease of parsing and so on, whereas"),
  Line ("pointy bracket systems do!")
 )
)

if __name__ == "__main__":
	print Root
	

regards,
	


Sean,

XML Processing With Python
ISBN: 0 13 021119 2
Prentice Hall





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