--- Joshua Hutchinson <joshua@hutchinson.net> wrote:
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.
Just to put people's minds at rest, I don't believe we should post XML+CSS without (at the very least) an HTML edition -- certainly not until we have agreement on a common base of XML to use, and well tested tools to convert from this to (at the minimum) an HTML edition that displays acceptably on a wide range of browses. Even if we do end-up using a 'nonstandard' XML markup at DP, I agree with Joshua that we should try as hard as possible to ensure it can be converted easily to TEI (derivatives of which seem to be in favour around here). People at PG will not see the DP-internal markup, only our output, which will conform to the standards we will hopefully agree on at some point :). -- Jon Ingram __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail