----- Original Message ----- From: Marcello Perathoner <marcello@perathoner.de>
Jim Tinsley wrote:
Nobody has an objection to valid TEI texts, but valid TEI texts alone _are not enough_. An XML file that cannot be read (by an actual human) is as useful as a lock with no key.
Not so. Having a TEI text posted would enable third-party developers to come up with their own converter solutions eve if we didn't get very far with ours. There are a lot of people around who already convert the text files into other formats. Their jobs would get much easier.
I'm hoping Jim (or someone else) can clear up something for me. If I create a TEI document, use it to create a regular 8-bit ASCII file and valid HTML file, then submit all three to the whitewashers ... will they post all three (assuming the ASCII file clears GutCheck and the HTML clears the W3C validator)? If not, why not? If yes, why can't this be the "incremental" development that Marcello was alluded to? Please, this is not attacking anybody's stance. I'm really just trying to understand the positions/policies here. Josh