> I'd compare it with Markdown Which is a pretty terrible comparison. Markdown allows you to add some structural annotation to your text as you write it, witho

> I'd compare it with Markdown Which is a pretty terrible comparison. Markdown allows you to add some structural annotation to your text as you write it, without having to type a lot. That's a useful thing. But textual markup systems like TEI and Docbook go way beyond what you can do with Markdown (also, what can be practically managed in a less 'verbose' system like JSON). They also aren't really intended as authoring tools in quite the same way; you don't code them as you work. well, you might do some hand-editing of your TEI in some specialized academic archival work, but you wouldn't use that kind of coding for writing a new text.