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Subject: [9fans] Re: Higher level document rendering and editing (Was
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> 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!).