From: Dean Snyder (dean.snyder@jhu.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 09 2005 - 14:51:30 CST
John Burger wrote at 12:13 PM on Wednesday, March 9, 2005:
[I wrote:]
>> 2) plus all the markup schemes with which I am familiar (including the
>> ones you mention here) use non-empty tags for the markup elements, tags
>> which are basically worthless for overlapping hierarchies of
>> meta-textual
>> data. (Try marking up a textual feature that spans portions of two
>> paragraphs and you'll see what I mean.)
>
>This seems irrelevant to your specific proposal - how would your
>character codes deal with this non-hierarchical issue?
As part of the text stream, encoded damage indicators would have nothing
to do with meta-textual issues.
But you are right, it is basically irrelevant to the present discussion;
I was just pointing out why I don't happen to like for this application
the particular markup standards mentioned (other than the mere fact that
they are markup).
Respectfully,
Dean A. Snyder
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