I think all the same arguments that apply to HTML, in particular "simple"
HTML, apply here. What we're looking for is backwards compatibility to
plain text that requires no conversion. Also as Ned points out, previous
attempts at "simple" markup have all failed.
LL
At 5:51 AM +0100 8/19/98, Daniel Glazman wrote:
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I then suggest to skip a step and promote a XML e_mail. We could have
at least two DTDs : one for plain e_mail with coding white spaces and
carriage returns (see PRE element in HTML) and another model for
richer content, one of its elements acting as a PRE. The first one
will garanty backward compatibility with text/plain. We can also be
ready to integrate the XMLized version of HTML as soon as the new HTML
WG of W3C delivers it. Of course, the XML+XSL or XML+CSS browsers that
the vendors are preparing will have no difficulty to display such
messages...
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