Jim Tinsley wrote:
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 02:14:31PM -0700, Jonathan Ingram wrote:
--- Jim Tinsley <jtinsley@pobox.com> wrote:
Jeroen provided XML like this, which I thought was very good indeed. For any of you who haven't seen it, please point your browsers to http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/1/3/3/11335/11335-x/11335-x.xml which is an absolute pleasure to read. (Well, if you're a geek, that is, and if you ain't, whatcha doin. here?? :-)
First off, let me say that ... is a beautiful e-text. I really like the look and thanks to Jeroen for producing it and Jim for point it out! And next, let me make a modest proposal. Jon (in the DP forums) is making some progress toward a XML/CSS standard of sorts. I'm going to be watching closely (and helping as much as I can). One of the things I'm going to be pushing for is TEI-Lite compliance as much as possible. Since Marcello has his PGTEI document guidelines on the web site, I'll be looking through that for ideas and such. I'll be going over this with Jon when I can, but my early idea is that we work on a couple of DP e-texts (the two of us have TONS to choose from!) and improve the XML markup standard enough for basic work. In a few weeks or so, I'd like to get a few projects posted to PG that use XML (TEI) with a CSS style sheet in place of the normal HTML that we always produce on our projects. The normal text file will of course be created. Once we have a canon of TEI to work with, hopefully the developers out there can start working on tools to help produce HTML or TEXT or PDF directly from the master. It seems to me that the XML/CSS process is the best method to incrementally approach a XML master. Marcello has a point that if we wait until we have a 100% solution, we may never get there... But a XML/CSS process is doable now and it gets us closer. Now... everyone let me know where my logic fails. (Everyone but bowerbird... don't even bother to respond, please... I'm trying to actually get something going besides a diverting flame war!) Josh