Jon Noring wrote:
I'm a little puzzled by this because it implies there is no "standardization" of the HTML markup.
I think the XHTML markup should be standardized enough around a structural/ semantic basis (not a presentational basis) so that a standardized style sheet can be used for most of the books in the proofing process.
In XHTML this can be a standardized "class" library mapped from TEI tags (for a possible flavor of TEI to use, see Marcello's lastest draft of PGTEI at
http://www.gutenberg.org/tei/marcello/0.3/doc/20000-h/20000-h.html )
The "standardization" is there ... it just doesn't go as far as to specify a standard style sheet. Now, the TEI has a "working" standard style sheet, but there have already been some changes identified in testing. Once, we have the final transforms worked out, I plan on having an open call for style sheets on DP. Josh