html comes with baggage. --- If you're writing a parser, you might have text nodes, and bold/italics nodes which can contain each-other and text nodes. Exampl

html comes with baggage. --- If you're writing a parser, you might have text nodes, and bold/italics nodes which can contain each-other and text nodes. Example: - bold node -- italics node --- text node But if you add html support, you're going to run into strings like this: <b><i>text content</b></i> How easy is it for you to represent that? What about: not bold or italic <b>bold but not italic <i> bold and italic </b> italic but not bold </i> not bold or italic What about: </b> not bold <b> bold <b> bold again? </b> is this still bold? </b> what about now? <b>