Re: Single Source: Yay, Nay, or TBD?

[TechComm Dood <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com>]

> Let me expand. By separating structure and length of paragraphs from
> formatting, I was referring to the fact that, most of the time, you need
> to exercise considerable judgement to get these things right. Leaving
> them to XML is theoretically possibly, but usually only if you're
> satisfied with rather mechanical results. For XML to be worth the time
> to set up, the material has to be extremely consistent in structure; it
> might work well in API documentation, for example. Without such
> consistency, you'd have to spend so much time designing that it would be
> counter-productive to consider using it in the first place.

That is possible, yes, but there are too many factors at play in any
given implementation to make blanket statements about possibilities
and restrictions.

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