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> Kick me out of the fraternity if you want, but I can > imagine doing this input, validation, display job > MUCH easier with procedural code than XML ....Can > somebody restore my faith (which I almost had, for a > minute there) in strongly typed XML and declarative > processing? Well, the OED is in SGML since 1998 (is there an XML subset yet?)-- with that we could use Simon's Regular Fragmentations to pull the words apart at the spaces. Then it is a matter of XPath lookups to find the matching OED entries. Assuming that we have broken down those OED entries into their syllabic parts (which is already done in the SGML) we will have a place to go. We can determine stressed and unstressed syllables. Although I am not sure about the fringe cases : e.g. "beema'" There once were some XLim'rick docs That were parsed into fragmented blocks Using property bags And XML tags They were transformed and published by Wrox. -- Jeff Rafter Author: Programmer to Programmer: Beginning Limerick
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