9fans archive / 2008 / 01 / 499 /    prev next

From: pavlovetsky@gma...
Subject: [9fans] Re: Higher level document rendering and editing (Was
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:04:04 GMT


> I'd like to point out, though, that the P9 synthetic filesystem is a
> preferable abstraction to a specialised library and in this particular
> instance, I would present a complex, marked-up document specifically
> as a collection of files in such a synthetic filesystem.

Groovy. For some time already I am considering bundles of files and
directories as a method of structuring a complex document, and this by
no means is not new to the world, though. There is also structural
regular expressions, which can describe two-dimensional patterns (and
describe tables!).