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The problem (in my opinion) with ZML is that it's non-standard. There are NO converters that will read it and convert it into something that can then be used to generate a book that will be readable on a portable book reader. Book Designer won't read it, libprs500 won't convert it. So non of the devices we have... cell phones, PDA, eink readers will actually have anything to do with ZML. So why not just do the cleanup of the PG text and output standard HTML that is 100% adequate for the task at hand and thus can either then be read as is or converted easily to be read on a portable reading device? What is is about ZML that make it that much better then HTML? And what is there in a PG text that HTML cannot handle?
bowerbird, you do make some valid points about the consistency (standardization) and some of the problems with PG text. And then you go wanting to use ZML which is not a standard at all that nobody can use to convert to something they can actually read. Can you see why we have a problem here? You are trying to fix something that may possibly be broken and add a layer of inconsistency to that so it comes out even more broken then before you started.
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