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RE: Why is text marked up ?

• From: "David Lee" <dlee@calldei.com>
• To: "'davep'" <davep@dpawson.co.uk>, <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:16:44 -0500

This is the most succinct to date ... but I suggest there are non-mechanical reasons for markup as well.   Markup in a real sense simulates the "pen on paper" 'markup' used by editors, historians, students etc in traditional non-mechanical worlds ... 

So I question:

"Is Markup ONLY for mechanical/machine purposes ?"




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David A. Lee
dlee@calldei.com
http://www.xmlsh.org

-----Original Message-----
From: davep [mailto:davep@dpawson.co.uk] 
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 2:02 PM
To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: Re:  Why is text marked up ?


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
XSLT XSL-FO FAQ.
http://www.dpawson.co.uk


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