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THOMAS PASSIN writes: > After reading a lot of the postings in this thread, no one except the GP > itself seem to be looking at the key issue namely, ***who will be creating > the markup, and how can they do a lot of it?***. As far as I can see, it > is likely to be volunteers who don't know much or care about markup and > DTDs. um. why are these people doing it, if they dont know or care about markup? Me, I am old-fashioned. I'd rather have less, and quality, than loads of texts knocked off by people working in a hurry. Actually, to be pragmatic, if I wanted 1000 books tagged consistently, I'd raise a bit of cash and have them done by highly-experienced professional markup people in India. > 1) Get on with the job with a minimum of things to learn up front and > remember, > 2) Be able to know how to write their markup by looking at a few samples, > 3) Have the markup make sense at first or second glance, > 4) Minimize their typing, they are going to write < and > and & with vi, these people? why don't they use decent software in the first place, to conceal the nasty details from them? > Ideally, the document design would also lend itself to more advanced > processing and conversion to other DTDs, but without following the numbered > points, there probably won't be much of a project anyway. it does not seem to have prevented the creation of big, juicy, corpora of texts around the world. but then plainly I haven't read the manifesto of gutenberg so I'd don't yet know what the point is. > I don't know much about TEI, but the only way it could work would be 1) you > can really simpify it, and 2) you can rename elements to be evocative than > <div type="...">. Preferably you want the element name to do the work, not > an attribute (attributes like "type" go against points 1 and 4). No real disagreement there. Nor very much work. 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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