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Date:         Wed, 10 Sep 1997 12:12:06 +0100
From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@ELSEVIER.CO.UK>
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Subject:      Re: HyperLaTeX
Status: R

 >   So how does the hypertex protocol work together with other protocols,
 > like embedded PS or non-GIF pictures? Does every protocol invent its own
 > syntax to identify itself?
there *is* no protocol for embedded PS or non-GIF, so what are you
getting at

 >   Well, the HTML standard is evolving, and one would then want to have
oh you think its a `standard'....

sensible people like TeXxies [1] should be plugging XML

 > access to the new hyperlink features, but not the markup features. So one
 > would really want to work with a hyperlink protocol, and not HTML.
which is exactly what we have. the fact that the tags start `html'
does not imply that random HTML after them is acceptable.

sebastian

[1] i am famous for my irony