Richard Parsons wrote on 08/26/2018 07:44 AM:
I don't know anything about SGML, although I have a general understanding of HTML and XML. Are there Racket tools for SGML (a google search doesn't immediately turn anything up)?
As Norman said, SGML was great,[1] but probably not something one wants to get into today.
I only mentioned SGML because your example (marking up a span of text as an element, including an attribute) looked like SGML and HTML, and that seemed worth considering briefly. But I think you could do things more usable for your purpose than you'd get by doing this as SGML/HTML/XML, probably with less net effort using Racket.
[1] Commercial SGML tools vendor Electronic Book Technologies had some good stories, like, you did your technical documentation with structural/semantic markup in SGML, intending their desktop DynaText browser and print, but, when the Web starts to get popular, suddenly you're also on the Web -- and with a much richer interface than anything anyone else has (while others were still trying to build up things from HTML and Perl scripts). There was another story about taking advantage of the new HTML frames feature (which was a big deal, before CSS and JS), overnight. (Disclosure: I worked on core infrastructure C and C++ code there, for a year or so, until I could afford to go to grad school full-time, and I can't take any credit for their accomplishments.)
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