I'm definitely in favor of </>; I think it's very clean and quite
nice, and as its meaning is completely deterministic there's no reason
not to have it.
> > 2) It appears that both the <img> and <fig> tag should be rolled into one,
> > as both accomplishes esentially the same thing.
>
> I have included IMG for two reasons.
>
> a) for simple captionless graphics, which are positioned
> as part of the current text line.
>
> b) for backwards compatibility with HTML (X Mosaic and Cello)
It's fine with the Mosaic folks if IMG goes or stays (we're not
emotionally attached to it :-).
Marc