> You can take a paper document, and add all manner of markup to it, without needing to alter the original source. Why can't we do the same with hypertext? Thi

> You can take a paper document, and add all manner of markup to it, without needing to alter the original source. Why can't we do the same with hypertext? This is a crucial point that I had never considered. Maybe we could mark this interleaved metaHTML with IDs or classes that make it easy to strip out. Or maybe HTML is a rendering format and we need something one step up.