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Re: Use TEI (was Re: Gutenberg Project <longish>)

• From: Elaine Brennan <elaine.brennan@w...>
• To: xml-dev@X...
• Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 20:55:20 -0700

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


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