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I now see why it might take a year to get updates into XQuery, it is all very obvious now ... From: "Jonathan Robie" <jonathan.robie@s...> To: "Mike Champion" <mc@x...>; <xml-dev@l...> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 5:51 PM Subject: Re: Re: [ANN] XML Limerick Competition > At 03:13 PM 1/11/2002 -0500, Mike Champion wrote: > >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? > > The following covers at least the syllabification: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <!ENTITY % normal.foot "(%iamb; | %anapest; | %tertius.paeon; )"> > <!ENTITY % last.foot "(%iamb; | %anapest; | %tertius.paeon; )"> > > <!ENTITY % iamb "( da, dum )"> > <!ENTITY % anapest "( da, da, dum )"> > <!ENTITY % tertius.paeon "( da, da, dum, da )"> > > <!ELEMENT da (#PCDATA)> > <!ELEMENT dum (#PCDATA)> > <!ELEMENT limerick (long, long, short, short, long)> > <!ELEMENT long ( %normal.foot;, %normal.foot;, %last.foot; )> > <!ELEMENT short ( %normal.foot;, %last.foot; )> > > > Here is an XML instance that validates against the DTD: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <!DOCTYPE limerick SYSTEM "c:/temp/limerick.dtd"> > <limerick> > <long> > <da>There</da> > <dum>was</dum> > <da>a</da> > <da>young</da> > <dum>la</dum> > <da>dy</da> > <da>named</da> > <dum>Bright</dum> > </long> > <long> > <da>Who</da> > <da>could</da> > <dum>trav</dum> > <da>el</da> > <da>much</da> > <dum>fast</dum> > <da>er</da> > <da>than</da> > <dum>light</dum> > </long> > <short> > <da>She</da> > <dum>set</dum> > <da>out</da> > <da>one</da> > <dum>day</dum> > </short> > <short> > <da>In</da> > <da>a</da> > <dum>rel</dum> > <da>a</da> > <da>tive</da> > <dum>way</dum> > </short> > <long> > <da>And</da> > <da>re</da> > <dum>turned</dum> > <da>on</da> > <da>the</da> > <dum>prev</dum> > <da>i</da> > <da>ous</da> > <dum>night</dum> > </long> > </limerick> > > Some work remains to be done here. First, I have not represented word > boundaries or punctuation here. This brings up the topic of multiple > concurrent hierarchies, which could be addressed in a number of ways, > including TEI milestones or stand-off markup. > > Once the words are represented, we have to determine whether stress is > accurately represented. This requires access to a dictionary of the > language that represents stress and syllabification. GIven this, a schema > adjunct could be written, using a vocabulary designed to determine if the > marked-up stress is accurate. Similarly, another vocabulary could be > designed to represent the desired rhyme scheme, and this could leverage a > rhyming dictionary. Both of these dictionaries should be represented as > XML, of course. > > A stylesheet can be written to provide a standard representation of this. > > Shall we start this project on Sourceforge? > > Jonathan > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl> >
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