Re: Markdown Group - What set of goals?

Hi Paul.
  Glad you've joined us

On 20 November 2012 01:34, marbux <marbux@gmail.com> wrote:
> Polyglot poses some challenges in terms of drafting interoperability
> conformance requirements. I.e., difficult to use markdown as an
> intermediary to round trip docs from and to markup languages that are
> far more featureful.
>
> I'm not opposed to polyglot, but it requires some thought and study.
>
> I'm not knowledgeable enough yet about variants to opine, but I'm
> wondering about defining a core profile then defining variants as
> supersetting profiles, then seeing how far we could get in borrowing
> the conformance requirements of the W3C Compound Document by Reference
> Framework for interop purposes?
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-CDR-20070718/#conformance>.


Two points raised. Both scope related.
Does anyone expect 'round tripping' from a MD implementation?
For me, that is a nice to have and implementation dependent.

Terminology. Would someone give a definition of polyglot MD?
Do we need a glossary page?

regards





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