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Re: Markup, an abstraction

• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
• Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 07:22:26 -0400

On 8/28/13 2:02 AM, Hans-Juergen Rennau wrote:
> this fact might
> kindle an interest in "markup" as a phenomenon existing beyond the
> limits of the conventional use of the term.

I suspect that you need a term other than "markup".

Markup comes far too clearly from the concrete human marking up of 
documents.  Many of the failings of XML (and HTML, and other markup) in 
programmers' eyes come back to decisions made in support of that 
original critical use case.

Information or perhaps a new term definitely seems like better places to 
go.  Your abstractions seem more to head _away_ from markup.

Thanks,
-- 
Simon St.Laurent
http://simonstl.com/

• References:
  • Sunday morning
    • From: Hans-Juergen Rennau <hrennau@yahoo.de>
  • Re: Sunday morning
    • From: Peter Hunsberger <peter.hunsberger@gmail.com>
  • Markup, an abstraction
    • From: Hans-Juergen Rennau <hrennau@yahoo.de>