On 09.04.2015 18:59, Ben Langfeld wrote:
> Florian, my concerns with your approach are twofold:
> 
> 1. It is complicated and is not markup in the sense that is used by XML,
> HTML, SSML, etc. Being abstracted means a complicated association step.

Yep, it's more complicated then just adding another attribute to an
element surrounding text.

Not sure what's the issue with it being not markup. In my eyes that's an
advantage here.

> 2. It does not accurately correlate. Imagine this example:
> 
> <message…>
>   <body>Hi Joe Bloggs. How are you? Oh, and you Joe Bloggs too?</body>
>   <mark>
>     <mention jid='[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>'>
>       <by-string string='Joe Bloggs'/>
>     </mention>
>     <mention jid='[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>'>
>       <by-string string='Joe Bloggs'/>
>     </mention>
>   </mark>
> </message>

That's a case where you would use 'by-range' in order to avoid the
ambiguity.

- Florian


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