>> I'd like to point out, though, that the P9 synthetic filesystem is a >> preferable abstraction to a specialised library and in this particular >> instance, I would present a complex, marked-up document specifically >> as a collection of files in such a synthetic filesystem. >
that's what aux/olefs does with MS Office documents, doc2txt and xls2txt are scripts that mount the doc in /mnt/doc and use helper programs to read files in there. > Groovy. For some time already I am considering bundles of files and > directories as a method of structuring a complex document, and this by > no means is not new to the world, though. There is also structural > regular expressions, which can describe two-dimensional patterns (and > describe tables!).
