Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: [humanmarkup] Introducing the Logical Language Group

From: John Cowan <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 15:36:52 -0500

michael helsem wrote:

> why not--first of all, how do we say "human markup" in lojban?
> i confess i'm not familiar with the jargon that's taken from...
> then, what's "XML"?

A method of marking up text or data to provide structure and
additional information about it.

> so why reify any particular notation, even lojban's, when there's
> no useful consensus?

The fact that there is no way to do everything is not a justification
for doing nothing.

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