Re: In-Band Information Considered Harmful

Felix S. Gallo writes:
> > Note that those codes impose conditions on the following text, they do not
> > represent embedded codes (a la Ilya or WordPerfect).  [...]
> Yeah, this is a great thing.  The unimportance of ordering is a big bonus.
Note that the same effect may be achieved with embedded metadata by
using lookahead.

      (?=<b>)(?=<i>)

will match the boundary where italic and bold start - no matter what
the order is - due to semantic of skipping 0-width substrings.

Ilya