----- Original Message ----- From: Marcello Perathoner <marcello@perathoner.de>
Jim Tinsley wrote:
That process must work for _all_ teixlite files, not just ones that are specially cooked, using constraints not specified within the chosen DTD. Here's where we hit the rocks today.
Impossible. There are things you cannot specify in a DTD but still must be followed to get a semantically correct file. (This holds for every XML application not just for PGTEI.) You always have to obey some extra rules besides validity. These are put down in the PGTEI guide.
Hmm... Maybe I misunderstand here. If a file comes in, marked up in TEI-Lite and we cannot transform it with our standard process, it seems to me either the DTD we've chosen is incomplete or the TEI markup has a bug. Now, if a new text needs a feature not in our current DTD (am I using the teminology right here), I'm not against modifying the DTD standard to include it, but there would need to be some procedure to do it so that it gets "reviewed" by others first. Or, maybe there is a way to define new elements that are outside the standard DTD within the XML submission file itself? Again, I'm trying to learn this as I go, so if my question is stupid, I apologize in advance.
The only things we must have -- both for our own internal practical purposes and for the use of future readers -- is that it should work reliably on _all_ texts that conform to the XML DTD chosen, be open source, and be cross-platform. A reader needs to be able to tweak the transform and re-run on her own desktop.
Same as above. The DTD is not strict enough (RelaxNG will be better, but it's still early). There will always be valid TEI files that do not transform to `correct' output files.
I don't see why it is necessary for the conversion tools to run on everybodies desktop before we can start posting files. If the tools run on pglaf.org and gutenberg.org that is more than enough for a start. The tools can be fixed later. That won't make posted valid TEI files invalid.
If we have the tools on the server and available for use, that is sufficient for me. But I also think that all the files (DTD, XSLT, and whatever else) should always be available for download for the industrious person that DOES want to run it on their own machine. Josh