2. Replacing and Replacing and

3. and are milestones at present.

4. Locations in current DTD 

5. What is wrong?  Hard to render properly in Arboreal.  Hard to render properly anywhere.  Violates „spirit“ of XML.

6. A modest proposal  Allow an emph attribute on, etc.  Treat emphasis as language is currently treated.  The attribute is inherited by children.  An tag allows shorter emphasized passages.

7. Advantages  Easy to determine if we are in emphasized text by examining the container hierarchy.  Attribute frees us from having to worry about tag „overlap“.  We have already implemented this strategy for language coding.

8. Conversion II can write a program to convert to the new format. PParser sees <emph> and starts applying emphasis attribute until <emph.end>. IIn a second pass, we move attribute to the parent, if all children have it.