marcello said:

"We" did it *before* all. I did it in 2003.

i wasn't talking to you, marcello. your versions still have pimples...

You should have created a catalog of all features found in the originals, not of the few features that could be preserved in the plain text format.

it's a test-suite of features common in _books_. i've been desktop publishing since ventura v1.0...

But then you would have duplicated the work of the TEI Consortium and found out how inadequate your ZML format is in real life.

coming up with a vastly simpler formulation is _not_ "duplicating the work", not at all... and as my test-suite clearly demonstrates, z.m.l. is *more* than adequate "in real life". and that's the whole point...

Looks like you are trying to jump on the TEI bandwagon after years of bad-mouthing it ...

i'm not on the .tei "bandwagon" at all. but i _am_ glad that somebody is finally starting to make it real enough that we can finally subject it to some basic comparisons, so we can see that what it is going to give us in benefits isn't _nearly_ worth what it's gonna take from us in costs. i can make good on all your promises with _zero_ markup. so who are you ever gonna hoodwink into doing your markup? you best course of action right now is to close your mouth and sit back and watch while i run circles around your .tei... -bowerbird