A reminder of the original design goal of Markdown - my personal thoughts

[A. Pagaltzis]

* John Gruber <gruber at fedora.net> [2005-09-06 17:00]:

> Why do you want this weird

> 

>    @attribute=value

> 

> syntax?


I don’t. As I said, it was the first that came to mind and I ran
with it for the purpose of discussion. All I care about is the
way it would work, not the syntax.

(By way of an inconsequential explanation, I guess it comes from
XPath influence. I’ve been writing loads of XSLT in the past
year.)

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>