Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] ANNOUNCEMENT: XML has hit the PG archives! (gutvol-d Digest, Vol 13, Issue 19)
From: Brad Collins <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:47:30 +0700

Jon Noring <[email-masked]> writes:

> Bowerbird wrote:
>>  jeroen said:
>
>>> Some have argued (with valid reasons) that the entire idea of TEI
>>> markup is broken, and have proposed systems in which the mark-up is
>>> separated from the text (stream of characters), in such a way that
>>> multiple, parallel systems of  mark-up can exist. Think of a separate
>>> (part of a) file, saying characters 21 to 34 are italics, and so on.
>>> This may sound odd, but it is the way the old Macintosh wordprocessor
>>> MacWrite worked.

About two years ago I was playing around with the same idea.  My
solution was to take a CSS approach to layering.

CSS places an external layer of formating instructions on top of a
text, so why not extend CSS to also be able to add layers of semantic
markup to a text?

This would make it easy to add semantic markup including glosses,
notes, comments (scholia) etc to a text, even it the text is located
on a server somewhere on the Net.

The folks doing the Hypereal Dictionary of Mathematics are creating a
scholia system based on Emacs text properties to add layers of scholia
to texts.

b/

-- 
Brad Collins <[email-masked]>, Bangkok, Thailand