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Re: Is recursive markup good? bad? supported? not supported?

• From: Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com>
• To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
• Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 12:14:02 +0000

On 10 December 2011 11:53, Costello, Roger L. <costello@mitre.org> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> There doesn't seem to be a lot of people using recursive markup - I received only two examples of schemas containing recursive definitions.
>
> Why is there such limited use of recursive markup?

Pretty much all document centric markup contains some form of
'recursive markup'...  all the usual suspects like a para containing a
list which can contain paras, etc.


-- 
Andrew Welch
http://andrewjwelch.com

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