Hi Don,

as you might well know any markup that is of any use will
insert quite an amount of markup/information. The files
are not intended to be hand written or edited, but you have an 
editor or the file is auto generated. This insures the consistency of
the data. 

All that extra mark up as you say has its purpose for the tools that
operate on those files.

regards
Keith.


Am 05.02.2012 um 01:00 schrieb don kretz:

Your url is better than the one I had, and I found some documents.

Here's a link to a representative case.

http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/text/5506.xml

It's whqt I would expect an XML document to look like.

Does anyone think this is a markup we're likely to get DP proofers to adopt?
There's a lot of markup for not much text - low signal/noise ratio.
A lot of generic tags:
<item>...</item> type stuff that's not encouraging.

Is this a real candidate?