Re: (too) special markup (was: Re: XHTML 2.0 considered harmful)

But that's not what "kbd" (and its ilk) accomplish; they 
simply provide semantic sugar rather than fundamentally
affecting the way in which their content is interpreted.

Philip Taylor, RHBNC
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Daniel Glazman wrote:
> 
> Philip TAYLOR [PC336/H-XP] wrote:
> 
> >But : what is so special about computer code that tags specific to
> >writing about /it/ deserve a place in the core tag site, whilst
> >tags specific to writing about (say) linguistics do not ?  Surely
> >there is nothing special about computer code /within the aegis of
> >XHTML/ that deserves it being given special attention.
> >
> 
> Except the fact that code should be usable as is, ie with no need for
> entity resolution and no "<" detection until the closing tag of the code
> section is hit.
> That's not the case now and that's a pity all people writing technical
> documents about the web hit every day.
> 
> </Daniel>