CSD (privately)

[Alan H. Hartley]

> That's an option, though I think that the <tag>...</tag> encoding would be
> very difficult to edit directly, i.e., without a tool that hid that
> encoding from the editors in the way that Word et al. hide the similarly
> cumbersome internal representation for Word documents from Word users.

Check out Corel's XMetaL, which lets you view the file in plain text
(showing all the XML tagging); with color-coded graphical tags; or
normally (without any markup visible). It's very easy to work with,
requiring only a nodding acquaintance with XML.

Alan