Sean M Burke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I use XML as a notation to express the parse treelet, or event stream, > or tag stream. "Y<...>" is fine as anotation for those, but > "format:strikethru<...>" is not clear. Using XML as the notation is > handy in that we can always tell the difference between the explicit > form (Pod source, "Y<...>"), and the implicit form (which I express as > "<Y>...</Y>", "<format:strikethru>...</format:strikethru>", etc.), > regardless of the kind of interface that'll be used for talking to the > parsing application.
Why wouldn't the parser pass Y to the formatter if it said it understood it? I don't understand the point in the pseudo-XML tag names. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
