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Re: use of <pre> tag

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Nov 5, 2010 8:54AM

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 8:47 AM, < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> From the way you describe the legal data, it's possible that
> adding semantic markup might be relatively simple to automate,
> especially if you have anyone in the office who is skilled in
> regular expressions.

Yep! This should be something to look into.

At a minimum, I probably would not present this lengthy information
using <pre> due to the many accessibility implications already
discussed. Using <pre> will only make it less accessible.

Jared