back-translation and round-tripping

[Bowerbird at aol.com]

i'll be doing some experiments myself,
but i thought i'd ask here first about
back-translation and round-tripping
with markdown and its xhtml output.

the object is to take markdown output,
reduce it back to a markdown text-file,
then regenerate the output again and
compare it with the "original" output,
repeating if necessary until there exists
a pair of files that give perfect agreement.

has anyone done such experiments already?

is aaron's back-translation tool the best one?

>    http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/html2text/

anyone know if/when/where it has problems?

thanks in advance...

-bowerbird

p.s.   anyone here have reaction to the
analysis of markdown from ivan kristic
for the one-laptop-per-child project?


>    

http://dev.laptop.org/git.do?p=users/krstic/docformat;a=blob;h=d191a5a9f8beb6a052b5e8d30f7a4da99f67a07a;hb=a811c70ced7a02adfc35f66453c7548f8095af6f;f=d
ocument-format.txt
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