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I love semantics! Now, heres a question, how did I just say that, was I being sarcastic? joyful? Was I shouting? All will be revealed as you read the three reasons we should all start marking up files semantically.

1. Better Computer Understanding - Imagine a README file with sections marked up to relate to different software functions, combine that with software that has been programmed to read the file and follow user actions and you could have a very powerful user interface.
2. Easier Search - Computers love structure, so the more structured a file the easier it is for a computer to understand, context and meaning can be applied and so the document makes more sense and therefore is easier to search.
3. Accessibility - Ever tried to sound sarcastic over the internet, it is impossible to do through plain text, however if i wrapped my text in “<sarcasm>” tags the context becomes apparent. Now obviously tags in communicative text become messy so we would reserve the tags for audio output or display the text in some other way e.g. bolded for a strong emphasis.

So as you can see I was probably joyfully shouting I Love Semantics! and now as you hopefully can see, marking up works best.

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