Re: In-Band Information Considered Harmful

Dan Sugalski writes:
> With in-band meta-data, how do you (the collective you, not any particular
> you) plan on handling multiple, overlapping, unrelated sets of metadata?
> It seems like it'd get awfully messy with a single data stream, which is
> what we get with in-band metadata.
Like 

     "<b>foo <i>bar</b> baz</i>"

?  What is the problem you have in mind?  Since metadata is *easily*
distinguishable from data, there is no need to require proper nesting
even with in-band implementation.

Ilya