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Re: Literary DTDs
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- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Literary DTDs
- From: "Eve L. Maler" <Eve dot Maler at east dot sun dot com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 15:42:28 -0400
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You can try http://www.tei-c.org. The Text Encoding Initiative has a huge
number of constructs (though perhaps they're still only in SGML) for
literary works. The original purpose wasn't so much for authoring, but
rather for analysis of existing materials; however, I bet they'd work.
Eve
At 01:09 PM 6/22/00 -0400, Alvaro Siman wrote:
>Is anyone out there working on an XML DTD designed for literary use??
>
>This would include covering anything in the literary field such as the
>authoring of fiction, non-fiction, history, archeology, anthropology,
>poetry, and any other book. It would also cover periodicals and any other
>form of 'written word' media.
>
>It seems that most of the energy in XML is going towards highly scientific
>and mathematical publications, or into commercial applications. I am
>interested in covering the broadly distributed book and journal topics, and
>achieving a generic DTD 'vocabulary'.
>
>If so, please feel free to contact me:
>
>Alvaro E. Siman
>alsiman@sppe.com
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