"I need my formatting engine to be smart enough to extract more information out of my standard e-mail format. It should be able to figure out lists. It should see things that look like poetry and not blow away all of the line wrapping. Jorn points to
No-Tags Markup which seems to have some good ideas similar to mine." I could be wrong, but it always seemed to me that's what XML is for. I think the dream is that eventually we'll all start developing DTD's for our personal correspondence (or whatever) and that there will be the equivalent of an x-header telling a mail client where it goes to parse the mess it's been sent. The code, however, is only beginning to be written.