Jeni's Musings

Very interesting.

I’m surprised by your rejection of approach 2 on the grounds that it “requires too much syntax”. I would be inclined to start by designing the information model first and then figure out a syntax to represent that information model. Maybe I’m just brainwashed by too much XML/SGML, but the hierarchical relationships seem like a fundamental aspect of the information about the document which the markup should be capturing explicitly.