On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Eugene Eric Kim wrote:
> 3. Embedded structure limits the kinds of structure that can be expressed.
>
> For brevity's sake, I won't comment on the first two objections here,
> nor to his general feeling about mark-up, but I do want to say a few words
> about his third objection. Nelson's solution is to store content as raw
> text, and structure as a layer over the content. I agree with this in
> theory, but in reality, there isn't a true separation between the two.
> Raw text contains just as much embedded structure as an XML file, the only
> difference being that valid syntax is well-defined for XML documents,
> whereas it is undefined for raw text.
I don't think I'm understanding you here. Which embedded structure are
you saying raw text contains? Do you mean punctuation, paragraph
breaks, what?
If I'm understanding zigzag correctly, if you think of a collection of
text in zigzag, the letters are cells, one dimension creates words,
another creates sentences, another creates paragraphs, etc. In that
sense dimensions represent structure and cells represent content. I
guess ents and enfilades do the same sort of thing.
I do think that Nelson is on to something when he suggests that
structure must be a layer above the content. It's very hard, though,
to express exactly why.
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