Re: [xml-dev] Text Markup Part II

[John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>]

Peter Flynn scripsit:

>> A) "Marking up bits of text where needed"
>> And
>> B) "A full text markup vocabulary for encoding an entire document"
>
> I'm finding it hard to see a use case for (A) at all. I'm not aware of  
> it ever being done.

In LMNL, the tags express not containment but ranges, which may or may
not overlap.  There is no requirement to tag the whole-document range.
Indeed, as soon as you have escaped the LMNL markup start characters 
[ and {, any plain-text document becomes well-formed LMNL.

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John Cowan   cowan@ccil.org    http://ccil.org/~cowan
Original line from The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold:
"Only on Barrayar would pulling a loaded needler start a stampede toward one."
English-to-Russian-to-English mangling thereof: "Only on Barrayar you risk to
lose support instead of finding it when you threat with the charged weapon."