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Re: heritage (was Re: SGML on the Web)

• To: jeni@j...
• Subject: Re: heritage (was Re: SGML on the Web)
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 06:48:28 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: tpassin@c... (Thomas B. Passin), xml-dev@l... (XML DEV)
• In-reply-to: <261019955528.20021008112535@j...> from "Jeni Tennison" at Oct 08, 2002 11:25:35 AM

Jeni Tennison scripsit:

> In other words, the markup above is
> assigning properties to individual characters within the string; the
> meaning would be exactly the same the markup were distributed
> differently:
> 
>   [b}bold, {b][i}[b}bold italic,{b]{i][i} italic{i]

I think the tutorial should make a point of this, that although
<b><i>foo</i></b> and <i><b>foo</b></i> are different in XML, their
LMNL analogues mean exactly the same thing.

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