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Plucker's format is nowhere near as versatile or as rich as XHTML. For instance, it has no notion of a <ul> or <ol>-style; you have to hardcode the bullets or numbers in the document itself. Nested lists are problematic as well, as you have to insert hardcoded horizontal margins to make them appear indented. The problem here is that margins in Plucker format are specified in pixels, meaning that you get different results with different resolutions and/or different font sizes, causing text and list bullets/numbers not to line up properly. Anyway, this is how JPluck handles nested lists. The Python parser does not indent nested lists at all. Instead, it uses different list bullet symbols to distinguish between different list levels. This makes hierarchical lists difficult to read, to say the least.
Plucker has a simple presentational format that is geared towards rendering documents quickly on handheld devices. There's nothing wrong with that, since that is what Plucker is meant to do. Remember that it has been around for years when Palm OS 2.0 was the latest-and-greatest.
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