There have been a number of assertions along the line of "and then you could just ..."
that I would like to verify by finding cases where someone did.

What is passed off as an "implementation detail" is often much more
difficult to implement than it is to say.

On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Lee Passey <lee@novomail.net> wrote:
On 2/4/2012 4:41 PM, Karen Lofstrom wrote:
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 1:11 PM, don kretz<dakretz@gmail.com>  wrote:

Are there any sites where I can pull down books in TEI format?

Yes but ... the point of using TEI for a few complicated books would
be that the TEI could then be fed through a converter to produce
usable texts in azw, epub, txt, and other formats. RST as well would
be processed to produce end-user results.

That's the point of a master format ... like using XML to store data,
which can then be repurposed in various forms.

What's so hard to understand about that?

If you're trying to select a format to use, you want to pick one that has some weight behind it. You want one that has been vetted by experts; you want one that is mature enough that there is some assurance that it has the coverage you need; you want one that has software tools already developed to manipulate and convert it.

And if you're trying to develop some of those tools on your own, you want to see how /other/ people have used the format.

All of these are good reasons to examine other projects.

Mr. Kretz is a developer and tool builder, he's not just a consumer.


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