[sword-devel] HELP! Need your feedback on XML Markup Language

[Patrick Durusau]

Troy,

Sorry, your information about XML is out-dated! (Well, by a day anyway.)
;-)

Take a look at the presentation Matthew O'Donnell and I did at the
Extreme Markup Language conference in Montreal yesterday.

http://www.sbl-site2.org/Extreme2001

The presentation, paper (submitted to Markup Technologies: Theory and
Practice) and sample code are all available.

Overlapping hierarcies for texts, human genetic mapping,
treaty/legislation versioning, music, etc. are among the possibilities
raised in discussion following the presentation. All in XML!

Enjoy!

I am still on Montreal and so am typing very uncomfortably from my room.
A longer post early next week!

Patrick

"Troy A. Griffitts" wrote:
> 
> OK,
>         Here's a less formal invite to discuss a few topics about XML Markup.
> 
>         I think XML stinks for Bible Text Markup!
> 
>         XML doesn't allow more than one hierarchy in a document.  Here's an
> example of logical XML markup.
> 
> <Book NAME="Genesis"><Chapter NUMBER="1"><Verse NUMBER="1">In the
> beginning...</Verse>...</Chapter>...</Book>
> 
> This is all fine and dandy, but what about <Quote></Quote>, Intro,
> Paragraph, Red, Bold, Italic, etc!  Most of these things WILL cross over
> the single hierachy limit of XML.
> 
> Remember:
> 
> <Verse>Text for <Quote>a verse</Verse><Verse>text for the </Quote>next
> verse</Verse>
> 
> Is INVALID!
> 
>         What do you guys think?
> 
>                 -Troy.

-- 
Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
pdurusau@emory.edu