Re: Gutenberg DTD's

> Perhaps an XML version of TEI would suffice for many of these document
> types?

There has benn a thread on this very topic on XML Dev, and we do indeed have
a volunteer working on a subset of TEI, and it's documentation.

However IMO as presently written TEI does not meet the two most important
requirements, that it be both simp-le to use and Intuitive.

> >   2. At a minimum the DTD's should be suitable for:

This is an ambitious list, and we may not complete it all. How ever we
certainly don't need the granularity that of TEI.

My vision is for a relatively agranular basic DTD written on the DocBook
model which can have granularity added to it via modules. If any one wishes
i do have on file an XML version of TEILite that I can forward on request.
There is unfortunatly no documenttation with it. Now if some one would like
to volunteer to write documentation it _may_ possibly be useful. I would
also like to transform many of the tag names to something more intuitive.

the other thing I do not like about it is that it is mono-lithic and
un-parameterized which IMO also makes it difficult to use.

Frank

----- Original Message -----
From: Murray Altheim <altheim(at)eng.sun.com>
To: Frank Boumphrey <bckman(at)ix.netcom.com>
Cc: <hwg-gutenberg-dtds(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2000 7:35 AM
Subject: Re: Gutenberg DTD's


> Frank Boumphrey wrote:
> [...]
> >   2. At a minimum the DTD's should be suitable for:
> >       Books
> >       Poetry
> >       Plays
> >       Saga's
> >       Diarys
> >       Compendiums
> >       Letters
> >       Mixed content
> >       *Atlases
> >       *Encyclopedias
> >       Dictionaries
> >       Historic Documents
> >       *Scientific Documents
> >       *Parallel Translations
> >       Other
> >
> >       *These may be too ambitious for our initial DTD's,
> >        but we should at least have a look at them.
>
> Before we jump into such an ambitious task, might I suggest that everyone
> not already familiar with the scope and effort that was put into the TEI
> project please review it? The list above is actually grander in scope than
> TEI, and TEI tooks years of effort and included the expertise and
concerted
> effort of many experts. Are we biting off way more than we can chew?
>
> Perhaps an XML version of TEI would suffice for many of these document
> types? There's already a finished product and existing documentation, and
> I would prefer to see justification on why we'd want to reinvent that
wheel
> before we get out the rock carving tools.
>
> Murray
>
>
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