CSD (privately)

[Koontz John E]

On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Alan H. Hartley wrote:
> > 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.

That certainly sounds like one way to go.