XML is Not Bad

Created on 2020-10-15T22:11:40+00:00

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Tools like Pandoc and Asciidoctor are good.

You write the bulk of your prose in something which does not require fiddling and only insert special markup in places it makes sense to do so.

But now we just toss the markup files around on their own. This is not as good since our toolchains only know how to deal with whatever markup the operator used.

So basically markup (markdown, asciidoctor, texinfo) are good, but we should be compiling the results to SGML/XML.