Re: Proposal to add HTML class attributes to SRFIs to aid machine-parsing
Ciprian Dorin Craciun 07 Mar 2019 10:01 UTC
On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 5:11 AM Arthur A. Gleckler <xxxxxx@speechcode.com> wrote:
> The more I go through this process, the less convinced I am that HTML markup is a good solution. HTML just isn't a great medium, especially when we're using a language with a great printed meta-representation like S-expressions.
I am "glad" (but on the other hand "sadden") that you've reached the
same conclusion as I did some time ago.
In fact I would go further than saying that HTML isn't great, and
state that any other "for-prose" format is not usable to extract the
kind of information needed for signatures.
> I'm going to stop now. I don't think working through the rest of the SRFIs I selected is going to tell me much more.
>
> Ciprian and Lassi, I'm eager to see how your experiments turn out.
I'll try to work on SRFI 1 today. (I have a few ideas where I want to
take a different approach.)
Ciprian.