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At 07:52 PM 3/7/00 (+0000), Sebastian Rahtz wrote: >David Megginson writes: > > I would highly recommend either (a) starting with TEI or TEI-lite and > > removing stuff > >Rememembering that the TEI offers tools (the pizza chef) for >formalizing the cutting-down, extending or modifying of TEI. If one of >the arguments is "the typical tagger does not want all this rubbish >for when they are marking up Mansfield Park", then make them >special-purpose tiny-TEI authoring DTDs. It's ever so easy. While this is true, knowledge of the "pizza chef" (which probably needs additional explanation for anyone who isn't already aware of it [along with the grand tradition of food metaphors within the TEI culture]) is not exactly wide-spread. But like so many other DTDs developed with interchange as a primary goal, the TEI DTD can be intimidating to anyone who isn't intimately familiar with its gory details -- and a certain amount of familiarity with the gory details will also help someone trying to use the pizza chef. http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/TEI/newpizza.html . Check it out. --ELaine *************************************************************************** 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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