Commentary 32 Markup Meets the Mainstream: The Future of Content-Based Processing Charles Hill Department of English University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Wl 54903. hill@uwosh.edu http://www.uwosh.edu/departments/english/ In their 1990 article, DeRose et al. stated that there are now clear signs that OHCO-based text processing will soon be reaching the general text processing markets (DeRose et al., p. 18). The authors did not mean that millions of office workers and school children would be learning to type tags into their documents. Rather, they were predicting that new WYSIWYGeditors would make content-based markup languages transparent and easy to implement. Once these editors made content-based coding as simple as using a word processor, the text-producing world would give up word processing, which treats text as a stream of characters, and come to see text as it really is-an Ordered Hierarchy of Content Objects. In 1997, it is certainly true that content-based markup systems (usually referred to as "descriptive markup") have become familiar to those who create or produce large, complex documents for a living. However, to the rest of the world-that is, in the thousands of offices and schoolrooms in which vast amounts of text are being produced and distributed for a variety
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Markup meets the mainstream: the future of content-based processing
Hill, Charles
Follow ACM SIGDOC Asterisk Journal of Computer Documentation
, Volume 21 (3)
Association for Computing Machinery – Aug 1, 1997
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