Formatter tool with full overlap

More progress, I'm afraid. I've incorporated the test program announced in the last post into the formatter tool. This is intended as a practical replacement for XSLT. So now I can convert real texts plus overlapping standoff properties into valid HTML. If the properties are derived from XML documents there won't be any overlap initially. What formatter does is loosen up that particular restriction. So in the GUI it will be possible to change properties or add new ones that overlap. And it will still format correctly. I'll be putting some test cases onto the testbed at Loyola soon.

Web pages from overlapping properties

I've made some progress in turning random overlapping properties into HTML. I've written a test program to both demonstrate the principle and also to serve as a debugging tool for me. In the latter role it hasn't reported a single error for two days, so I'm starting to think this is it. Although it doesn't do anything useful it shows that neither embedded markup nor tree structures are necessary to markup up a text.