• From: Peter Flynn <peter@s...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Mon, 30 May 2022 22:58:13 +0100

On 30/05/2022 20:24, Roger L Costello wrote:

Hi Peter,

If I understand correctly, you are saying that in the following XML document:

[...]

one might want to insert additional markup around the quoted sentences. Something like this:

    <l>A’ was a merry man—took up the child:</l>
    <l><quote>“Yea,”</quote> quoth he, <quote>“dost thou fall upon thy face?</l>
    <l>Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit;</l>
    <l>Wilt thou not, Jule?”</quote> and, by my holidame,</l>
    <l>The pretty wretch left crying and said <quote>“Ay.”</quote></l>

Yes.

So the overlapping problem is this: Sometimes it's desirable to allow start-tag/end-tag pairs that are not properly nested.

Is that right?

• References:
  • Re: RE: The limits of XML mean the limits of my data world
    • From: Roger L Costello <costello@m...>