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Re: Re: Divorcing Data Model and Syntax: was Re: [xml-d

• To: tpassin@c... (Thomas B. Passin)
• Subject: Re: Re: Divorcing Data Model and Syntax: was Re: [xml-d ev]
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 06:25:48 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: xml-dev@l... (XML DEV)
• In-reply-to: <005f01c26e89$bce89810$fe193044@tbp1> from "Thomas B. Passin" at Oct 08, 2002 01:15:37 AM

Thomas B. Passin scripsit:

> A better starting point would be Dirac's "braket" notation, since it is so
> close to familiar markup already:
> 
> <text|A|text>

I was actually thinking about that.  But when you are allowed to embed
annotations within tags, you don't know if the | ends the current tag
or a subtag without much ugliness.  I don't actually *like* LMNLs
tag conventions ([foo} is a start, {bar] is an end, [baz] is empty),
but they work.

-- 
John Cowan  jcowan@r...  www.ccil.org/~cowan  www.reutershealth.com
"In computer science, we stand on each other's feet."
        --Brian K. Reid

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