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Re: Why is text marked up ?

• From: davep <davep@dpawson.co.uk>
• To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
• Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:02:18 +0000

On 01/19/2012 04:58 PM, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
> David Lee writes:
>
>> "Why is text marked up" ?
> To make explicit for mechanical processing what is
> implicit-but-evident in the original.
>
> ht
I think that sums up quite a few uses?
Misses metadata, but includes such as toc links,
indexing, formatting for presentation, filtering,
selection/re-organisation etc.
   Very succinct Henry.

regards

-- 
Dave Pawson
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