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On 16/01/2011 12:57, in article olao885lpaij$.1273idj6ytssc$.dlg@40tude.net,
"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:

> On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 11:59:18 +0000, Simon Wright wrote:
> 
>> Suppose we decide to have books with chapters with paragraphs. Are we
>> going to say
>> 
>> <book>
>>   <chapter>
>>     <paragraph>
> 
> Let's not. Documents have no such structure. When imposed on, this
> structure makes usage of the documents very difficult. ...

There was a fad in the '70s for program editors that worked on the basis of
a similar structure, but derived from the syntax of the programming
language. I never used any of them for more than half an hour because the
kinds of things one wants to do when doing serious editing of source code
simply do not respect the boundaries of syntactic constructs.

-- 
Bill Findlay
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