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marcello said:

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A TEI text is basically a text file.

right. if you could tell josh this, i'd appreciate it.

Text file and PLAIN text file are two different things. XML/HTML/XHTML/TEI/TEI-Lite/ZML ... those are all text files. None of them are PLAIN text files, which is what you always seem to advocate. ZML (Zero Markup Language) is ... wait for it ... a MARKUP LANGUAGE. That means it is just like XML/HTML, etc. Except that the rest are open standards with open source utilities available. ZML is you just wasting our time. Josh