keith said:
>   I doubt that very much!!
>   Mark-up is a necessity of
>   language and communication
>   wether you see it or not.

zen markup language
_is_ a form of "markup",
but it's the "light" kind --
not that _heavy_ stuff --
so it doesn't take much
time or money or energy
to "apply" it where needed.

as to "whether you see it or not",
z.m.l. generally tries to be invisible.

this is in sharp contrast to the
"heavy" kind of markup, which is
intrusive to the maximum, with
all those angle-brackets and
ampersand characters and tags
and stylesheet information and
javascript and table-markup and
lord knows what else is in there,
such that the actual _content_ is
more or less buried in all of it...

do a "view source" on most
web-pages these days, and
you'll see exactly what i mean.
that x.m.l. crap is _definitely_
visible, and it's a visual horror.

otherwise, the matter of "visibility"
can be kind of a philosophical one,
not?  can you see the spaces that
i have put in-between these words?
or how about the line-endings that
create a new line under the previous?

or the double-line-breaks that put
an empty line between paragraphs?
can you see an empty line?  or not?
can you hear silence?  i don't know!

some people call these spaces and
line-breaks "markup", which strikes me
as a lame attempt to rescue the concept.
but i don't argue with them.  i just smile...       :+)

-bowerbird