Consider the following lines of fake poetry:
Class aptent taciti sociosqu "ad litora torquent, per conubia nostra" per inceptos hymenaeos.
Now consider making a xml document out of it, where you had some elements for structure like |<poem>| and |<line>|; and some elements for content markup like |<||q||>| and others.
So how would you format it? (Assuming keeping the quote and lines are both need to be the appropriate elements and style is not important, yet)
|<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <poem xmlns="http://some.name.space";> <line>Class aptent taciti sociosqu <q>ad litora torquent,</line> <line>per conubia nostra</q> per inceptos hymenaeos.</line> </poem>|
but it's not well formed, and neither or the alternatives are appropriate, both:
|<line>Class aptent taciti sociosqu <q>ad litora torquent||,</q>||</line> <line>||<q>||per conubia nostra</q> per inceptos hymenaeos.</line> |
and
|<line>Class aptent taciti sociosqu||</line>||
<q>||
<line>||ad litora torquent,</line>
<line>per conubia nostra||</line>||
</q>
||<line>||per inceptos hymenaeos.</line>
|won't do because they don't properly convey the data and would be almost impossible to style appropriatly as well. Of course in this situation you'd probably be better of ignoring the <q>'s and just using quotation marks, but in my situation that's not really possible. I /have /to include both the strucutral markup and the content, any suggestions?
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