Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
i believe the .html version is as good as any you'll find on the net.
Result: Failed validation, 159 errors
but please do feel free to give feedback about what might be wrong; i assure you i can take it. (even if i don't happen to agree with it...)
You may tell a piece of your mind to the w3c validator team starting here: http://validator.w3.org/feedback.html
because i used only a bare minimum of tags (appended to this post), i expect that this .html version would be fine for generating versions for the rocketbook, ereader, mobipocket, and the other p.d.a programs.
First of all, it should validate. Second, it should not use deprecated tags. Third, it should use css.
so the question now is, if we can generate an .html version, as well as all the other versions stemming from the plain-text file, why do x.m.l.?
Lets mercifully overlook the fact that you have stolen my XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX you did not take the `raw' Alice from gutenberg.org as basis for your zml file, but you took the TXT file which was generated from a PGTEI master by the PGTEI converter ... (If you want to prove that you can make better cars than your competitor, you should not buy your competitor's car, paint over your competitor's logo, and sell it as your own make. People will notice!) Lets also overlook the fact that your `generated' html file contains 159 errors, so we really cannot speak of an `html' file at all ... After all this overlooking, you still have just posted two files. You have not demonstrated that the one file was algorithmically derived from the other. To do this you would have to post the source code (or at least a working executable) of your zml converter for us to see. Until you do that, *your* claim is unproven.
in other words, the _promise_ that x.m.l. will give different versions -- which is, as yet, unproven, i must remind you --
The PGTEI claim is proven enough. Texts have been posted. The source code is available. An online converter service is running for everybody to look-see. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org