Re: Inline macros

At 01:40 PM 4/25/96 -0700, David Ornstein wrote:
>Is there some literal introduction character we could use (back tick or
>something) that would allow the lexer to simply gobble this stuff up into
>one big binary chunk?  This would allow something like:
>
><mimesection type=txt/x-funk>
>`%my(funcky, macro);
>more stuff in the funk language`
></mimesection>

You are both trying to reinvent SGML marked CDATA sections. There is no need
to reinvent it. It does exactly what you are suggesting. Most SGMLers
consider it a Bad Idea to mix SGML and non-SGML data in the same file, but
if you want to do it, SGML already allows it.

 Paul Prescod

Received on Thursday, 25 April 1996 16:49:34 UTC