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by jmakeig 3257 days ago
Or your data is…you know…mark-up. Imagine a biology textbook, or legal contract, with inline citations and entities. There’s lots of marked-up human text around, even if that’s not what you’re sending to a JavaScript front-end. (Ironically, all of our JavaScript front-end frameworks are ultimately building mark-up as documents for human consumption.)