"Keith J. Schultz" <schultzk@uni-trier.de> writes:
TEI is far to bloated to be useful.
TEI is not bloated, its feature are there if you need them. But you can easily start with a subset, which is simpler than most of the HTML the DP people are used to do. Start with basic sectioning (<div>, <head>) and block "tags" (<p>) and submit your "pages" to a revision control system (svn, git) and you are done. But basic inline tags not that difficult... Somebody else will check it out and do the rest. Marcello already wrote a tutorial that's probably easier and taster to read than the (evolving) DP Guidelines.
Furthermore, the master format should preserve the original structure of the text while not being so restrictive to not allow the restructuring of the text. That is these mark up elements can be ignored or interpreted differently in order to support another output format.
Not sure what actually you are talking about, but with TEI you can perfectly preserve the original structure and even the layout of a page, and also add semantical or grammatical markup, if wanted. Later on, the processing software will ignore the markup you are not interested in. -- Karl Eichwalder