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RE: Is "markup" a noun or a verb? Do you "markup data" or "wr

• From: Len Bullard <len.bullard@u...>
• To: Deborah Aleyne Lapeyre <dalapeyre@m...>, xml-dev@l...
• Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:10:44 -0500

So where does the pre-defined schema, the contract, the design based on
sample or use cases fit in, Deb?

Do we tag text or apply markup?

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Deborah Aleyne Lapeyre [mailto:dalapeyre@m...] 
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 5:07 PM
To: xml-dev@l...
Subject: Re:  Is "markup" a noun or a verb? Do you "markup data" or
"wrap data in tags"?

1) "markup" is a noun, "mark up" is a verb (as is "mark down")

2) I have seen "tagging" defined as

  - applying markup to text
  - inserting tags into text
  - surrounding text with tags

and we are back where Roger started.

--dal
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