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Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 14:15:53 -0500 (EST)
From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: www/en/releases/2.2.2R errata.sgml
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On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Garrett Wollman wrote:

> The point was that Jordan introduced some ``emphasis'' markup to make
> a distinction which, although useful, had nothing to do with emphasis
> at all.  In situations like that, it is preferable to introduce a new
> markup element which precisely encapsulates the desired distinction.

...But entails leaving the domain of the HTML DTD currently used
for the document in question.  Is it worth the effort to (a)
create an Errata-Markup Language (ERML) and (b) an ERML to HTML
transform until XML/XSL browsers become the norm?

-john