On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 08:54:43 +0100, Roland Giersig wrote:
>Maybe the title should be :
>
>"Perl should use XML as its basic data type instead of linear strings"
Horrible.
I kinda liked your original proposal. But you should NOT focus on XML.
That leaves out too many other possible data sources: RTF, for example,
or TeX. What is typical, is that it is marked up text, in the form of a
tree, i.e. properly nested.
The internal structure might as well be easily representable as XML.
I do think that the term "non-linear text" is absolutely unclear.
--
Bart.
