Re: Doing Markup in Plain Text: A Modest Proposal for Planes 4-B of Unicode

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Mark E. Shoulson scripsit:

> Heh... I've occasionally caught myself almost wishing for this kind of
> setup, ridiculous though it be. It would be nice to be able to get just
> the *content* of the text without having to bother with all that mucking
> about with HTML rendering engines and whatnot.

TSaxon (http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/XML/tagsoup/tsaxon) is the ticket here,
with a trivial stylesheet that just specifies text output. Use the -H
switch to allow arbitrary HTML input.

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