Re: Project Gutenberg

That is what the part element is for.
Even though the DTD forces you to use chapter, it doesn't have to be a
chapter:>)

Use the role or type attribute to describe different kinds of chapters.

Frank
----- Original Message -----
From: Donna M Smillie <dms(at)zetnet.co.uk>
To: Frank Boumphrey <bckman(at)ix.netcom.com>
Cc: <hwg-gutenberg-dtds(at)hwg.org>; <hwg-gutenberg(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: Project Gutenberg


> Great - I'll do the Rime of the Ancient Mariner first (it's a lot
> shorter!), then go back to the Second Jungle Book if no-one else has
nabbed
> it in the meantime.  :-)
>
> Apart from adding the "poem" element to the gutbook dtd, the main problem
I
> could see was that the Second Jungle Book doesn't have parts or chapters
in
> the normal sense - it consists of several quite separate works, some
> stories, some poems, which are simply tied together by the Jungle Book
> theme, and I'm unsure how best to mark those up.  It occurred to me that
> perhaps an additional child of "book" called "work" might serve, with
child
> elements "story", "poem", "essay", etc, each of which would have an
> appropriate list of child elements from those already in the DTD?  Or have
> I missed something that would already serve this purpose?
>
> Regards,
> Donna
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Frank Boumphrey <bckman(at)ix.netcom.com>
>
> > Hi Donna,
> > at the moment just marking up texts would be great.
> >
> > I am about to add a poems module to the gutbook1.dtd to circumstances
> just
> > like yours, so go ahead and do jungle book if you want.
> >
> > 'poem' can be anywhere that para can be, and can also have a title and
> > lines.
> >
> > <!ELEMENT poem (#PCDATA|title|subtitle|verse|line)*>
> > <!ELEMENT verse(title|subtitle|line)*>
> > <!--validity constraint: Only one title per poem or per verse-->
> >
> > I have just finished adding it!! Wiill post it some time to day after I
> have
> > diff tested it.
> >
> > Frank
>
>

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