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Re: Literary DTDs
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- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Literary DTDs
- From: Jirka Kosek <jkj at kosek dot cz>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 10:53:56 +0200 (CEST)
- Reply-To: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, 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.
Look at TEI (Text Encoding Initiative)
http://www.tei-c.org/
I think this initiative start before 1990, so it is probably older than
DocBook by few years. Originally TEI was based on SGML, but now it is
migrating to XML.
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