David Woolley wrote:

> There are other XML applications that are targetted at that market.
> HTML was intended as something that you could teach to secretaries,
> librarians, anyone who could understand the basic grammar of their
> native language, etc.

Which still doesn't answer the thread starter: why are samp, kbd and var 
specifically still in this basic grammar, when they only refer to 
specialised types of content in a particular field?

P
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