Re: A plug for XXE (Re: Alternative formats for IDs)

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald at alvestrand.no>]

--On 13. januar 2006 22:40 -0800 Joe Touch <touch at ISI.EDU> wrote:

> > I haven't used it for "production" yet, but it looks wonderful - not
> > WYSIWYG, but WYSIPU - What You See Is Pretty Useful.
>
> Pretty useful compared to text-editing the source code, yes. Compared to
> WYSIWYG, still primitive, unfortunately.
>
> If the goal is to allow the output - i.e., the RFC - to be useful for
> data mining, why not allow the XML tags to be used *just* for the
> portions that we expect to extract (i.e., for the data to be mined), and
> let WYSIWYG editors format the rest of the document structure.
>
> I.e., let each tool be used where it works?

FWIW - I hate WYSIWYG with a passion.
I *never* want to consider pages, fonts, indentation, section numbers or 
justification when I'm typing. I want to get the text in there, mark 
clearly where the sections are, make my lists as lists, and *get the text 
written*.

Then I want to get it readable with minimal effort - and be able to change 
it later *without* having to guess at the difference between a section 
heading and a line that just happens to start with a number.

Semantic markup works for me - for the *whole* document.

But YMMV.

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