{On the use of \TeX\ as a general markup language for~\programrlap{\HTML5}}
{S.K. Venkatesan}
{The \TeX\ syntax has been fairly successful at marking-up a variety of
scientific and technical literature, making it an ideal authoring
syntax. The brevity of the \TeX\ syntax makes it difficult to create
overlapping structures, which in the case of \HTML\ has made life so
difficult for \XML\ purists. We discuss S-expressions, the \TeX\ syntax and
how it can help reduce the nightmare that the \HTML5 markup is going to
create. Apart from this we implement a new syntax for marking-up
semantic information (microdata) in \TeX.
}