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Jon Noring writes: > Yes, the intent in my last post was NOT to discuss the fine intricacies of > TEI or DocBook or whatever, but to point out that philosophically they are > different in several basic ways. I am not sure you have proved that point, actually. To me, the philosophical difference between TEI and Docbook is that the latter provides a lot of detailed specialized tags for writing computer software documentation. what else is different, conceptually? > What I intended to say is that the front, body and back matters usually each > have their own conventionally-used divisions. In the front matter of most > books we may find the title page, table of contents, acknowledgements, etc. > In the body we may find chapters, sections, articles, etc. In the back > matter we may find a glossary, index, colophon, etc. There are a fairly > large number of oft-used "divisions" in book publishing practice. ah, sorry, I see what you are getting at. you want to say <acknowledgements> not <div type="acknowledgements"> I would probably agree, and would make an authoring DTD which included <acknowledgements> in a <div>-level class, and write a transformation which mapped it to canonical TEI before archiving > <letter>, <ack>, <foreword>, <appendix>, etc. DocBook and ISO 12083 take > variants on this latter approach. the danger is that if you have a set of 5 choices, you shoe-horn unsuitable elements into them. "well, i know this looks like a dedication but we only have <acknowledgements> so I will use that". the TEI takes the cautious approach, which has equal dangers. > publishing DTDs, and he gave good reasons why a subset of DocBook would make > a good starting point. > It would not surprise me if I will get one or two who > will put in a mildly good word for ISO 12083. What's a proponent > to do? :^) it doesnt matter, if you are rigorous in your chosen DTD, as it can alsmost certainly be transformed later Sebastian *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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