From: Mark E. Shoulson (mark@kli.org)
Date: Wed Mar 31 2004 - 21:45:33 EST
jcowan@reutershealth.com wrote:
>XML has become the de facto standard for fancy text. It is therefore
>useful to explore ways and means of bringing XML into plain text,
>since obviously plain text is simpler than, and superior to, fancy text.
>The current method involving & and < and > and / and who knows what else
>is obviously much too complicated, and cannot interoperate with even the
>simplest plain text. Fortunately, the characters in planes 4 through
>B can come to our rescue.
>
Heh... I've occasionally caught myself almost wishing for this kind of
setup, ridiculous though it be. It would be nice to be able to get just
the *content* of the text without having to bother with all that mucking
about with HTML rendering engines and whatnot.
I suppose only a programmer (and a semi-Luddite one at that, who won't
or can't use existing packages) would really care, though.
Now, if we can just simplify ASCII down to *one* character and some
variation selectors...
~mark
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