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ED INLINE CODES Inline codes, such as markers for bold or italics, links information or image references, can be represented using either an encapsulation mechanism or a placeholder method. Those are derived respectively from TMX and OpenTag. The encapsulation mechanism consists of bracketing the inline codes between special elements. XLIFF keeps a syntax very close to TMX: (begin paired-tag); (end paired-tag); (isolated tag); and (placeholder tag). If some text exists within a span of encapsulated code, it can be delimited by a element if the tool does not extract it as a separate segment, which would be the best solution. The placeholder method consists of extracting the inline codes out to the skeleton file and replacing them with placeholders to indicate their locations. The element is the placeholder equivalent of and its ending tag the equivalent of . The elements and allow for the handling of overlapping inline codes; and the element is the equivalent of . Here is an example of inline tagging with code portions underlined: Click <a href="start.htm"> here</a> to