joshua said:
Honestly, I see an easy compromise here.
oh-oh, something smells bad here... :+)
As long as a conformant TEXT file and a conformant HTML file show up with the XML file, I say post all three.
well then i'm sure glad you don't _have_ a say...
Granted, right now we don't have a method for the WW'ers to verify the XML file is valid
all these minor details, eh?
so if you want to put a disclaimer to that effect in the file ... fine.
a disclaimer? that's your "compromise". yeah, right. for those on the outside, who wonder why this fuss is being made whether an .xml file can be "posted", it's because the x.m.l. people want the imprimatur of being "official". why is that so important? because that's how the x.m.l. ponzi game is being played these days. people are adopting x.m.l. not because they think it's the best route, but rather because they've been "convinced" that it is "inevitable". even though -- in too many situations -- it just plain doesn't work, this "inevitability" makes people shrug and say, "ok, give me some." after all, you don't want to miss out on the ground floor, do you? they will tell you time and time again how there are "so many tools" for dealing with x.m.l., how x.m.l. is gonna be able to do conversions for whatever format anyone wants, but they can't even demonstrate a simple ability to convert out a text file and an .html version now. and when you call them on that, they whine about how unreasonable you are being, and how unfair it is to expect "150% perfection". bull. it is _far_ more sensible -- especially in, as jim delicately put it, a "production environment rather than an experimental one" -- to make the process _work_ before you put it in play, the x.m.l. people don't want to be bothered with that "technicality" before the fact. that's something that someone will figure out "later". yeah, right. if x.m.l. gets the stamp of approval here, what's the motivation for x.m.l. experts to come make it work? after all, there's no money in it for them here. they're off being high-paid consultants, telling the next mark, "look, even project gutenberg is using x.m.l. now too." as marcello puts it:
At this point we need to set a signal that the TEI era has started.
he's not interested in actually making t.e.i. _work_ in reality -- he tried, and got a grand total of two simple e-texts done -- he just wants to "set a signal" that the "era has started" here... -bowerbird