On 02/27/2011 06:57 PM, don kretz wrote:
"A lot of fluff which looks nice and makes their editor simple to use." How inconsiderate.
I don't see any difference to DP: they routinely put in a lot of fluff which looks nice but breaks interoperability everywhere (excepting the very one monitor the PPer is using at the time.)
The problem is that people don't write well-formed text. They write prose and poetry. They write catalogs and plays and textbooks. All of which are often not "well-formed" structurally. Shakespeare especially so. Have you ever tried to map a Shakespeare play to XHTML?
No. But TEI has been used to capture all that and much more.
A "page" is often discontinguous with a Chapter or a Verse or Stanza or Scene. You have footnotes and sidenotes and stage directions willy-nilly. There's no "simple" way for a rigorously hierarchical method to accommodate that. (and X- is distinguished if anything for its rigor).
And still TEI, that was formerly expressed in SGML is now expressed in XML. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org