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- From: lac@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Les Carr)
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- Subject: Re: SGML
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- Date: 6 Jan 93 10:08:56 GMT
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- In <19930105.004@erik.naggum.no> SGML@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum) writes:
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- >| Is there any standard for SGML wherein the text is seperated from the
- >| formatting codes, so that for those that have no interest in SGML the
- >| text is not mangled?
- >If you wish to separate the markup from the text completely, you will
- >need to establish a means to identify the start and end of all elements
- >in the separated text. This is certainly _possible_, but you wouldn't
- >want to do it, because you would end up with more things to take care of
- >than writing an SGML-aware editor from scratch.
-
- Doesn't HyTime provide this with its CONLOC facility?
- Mind you, I'm not suggesting that there are any HyTime editors out there!
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- L.Carr@ecs.soton.ac.uk Les Carr
- Tel: +44 703 593649 Dept of Electronics and Computer Science
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