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Re: Source Code Markup Language?

• To: Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@g...>
• Subject: Re: Source Code Markup Language?
• From: Charles Brooking <charles.brooking@r...>
• Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:31:00 +1100
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Daniel Schierbeck wrote:
> I'd like to see if there's a simple language that merely marks up 
> variables, constants, functions/methods, numbers, string, etc. 
> Something along the line of
>
>  <var>foo</var> <op>:=</op> <str>"foo"</str> <op>+</op> <str>"bar"</str>
>
> The most important thing is that it should be possible to embed it in 
> XHTML.
>
>   <h:p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:c="urn:code...">
>     In the following example we assign <c:str>"foobar"</c:str> to 
> <c:var>baz</c:var>.
>   </h:p>

I've often considered doing the same thing, but have always ended up 
using <code>...</code> for all cases.

Will variable names and operators need to be highlighted differently 
when they're mentioned within a paragraph?

Will you ever want to do things like search documents for instances of 
the variable "foo" (and, for example, not the operator "foo")?

Later
Charlie

-- 
Charles Brooking
Associate Software Engineer
Canon Information Systems Research Australia

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