On 2/4/2012 5:00 PM, don kretz wrote:
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?
I don't think we're likely to get DP proofers to adopt anything beyond simple HTML. DP post-processors are more likely. But I don't think you're going to get any better response for ReST either. Acceptance by DP is probably not a good criteria in selecting a master markup language.
There's a lot of markup for not much text - low signal/noise ratio.
If you were to delete the recorded soft hyphens (<lb rend="hidden" type="hyphenInWord"/>) and surrounding white-space I think you would find the signal to noise a lot higher. Organizational constraints ("use this for that, don't use that for this, don't worry about recording soft hyphens or other artifacts of the print medium chosen") could reduce the noise a lot more.
A lot of generic tags: <item>...</item> type stuff that's not encouraging.
<item> is not a generic tag. It indicates an item in a list, corresponding to <li> in HTML.
Is this a real candidate?
I would think so. It does the job, has been well vetted by experts, and is fairly well accepted as a standard. It would certainly be a better choice that RYOML (Roll Your Own Markup Language).