[sword-devel] TEI markup support

[Ben Morgan]

Hi Chris,

My views are below...

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Chris Little <chrislit at crosswire.org>
wrote:

> Our plans are to use TEI for dictionary encoding from here forth. At the
> moment we have some support for both P4 and P5 conversion to RTF (used
> by BibleCS), plain, and HTMLHREF (used by GnomeSword, BPBible?,
> others?). So...
>
Yes, BPBible uses the htmlhref filter (at least inherits from it)


>
> Issue 1:
>
> Which filters remain necessary before we can declare that we support TEI
> and ship 1.5.11 with TEI support sufficient for all of the major
> frontends?
>
> I assume no one parses GBF, ThML, or OSIS directly for rendering. Does
> anyone use the plain HTML filter? (I'll tackle the WEBIF filters and do
> any revisions to the HTMLHREF that seem necessary.)
>

I very much doubt anyone uses the plain html filter - it doesn't even
support osis.
Is it worth dropping this from the library?


>
>
> Issue 2:
>
> I think DM and I (so far CrossWire's only 2 TEI encoders) are agreed on
> using the more recent TEI P5 for CrossWire-encoded texts. None of these
> are yet available publicly, but DM's NASB lexicons use P5 now and my
> (coming soon) revision of Webster's Dictionary uses it.
>
> Everything currently posted uses P4 (which was current at the time they
> were encoded). That includes stuff from Perseus (which came to us as
> TEI) and things from the Germanic Lexicons Project (which were encoded
> in TEI by me).
>
> Should we:
> a) support TEI P4 and P5 separately (so we would need TEI P4 and P5
> flavors of the filters targeting RTF, HTMLHREF, WEBIF, plain,
> etc.)--This would require extra work and a larger memory footprint than
> the other options.
>
> b) support TEI P4 and P5 jointly (one filter for TEI, irrespective of
> version, for each target markup)--This would be possible because there's
> not that much significant difference, but would be slighly wasteful.
>
> c) convert TEI P4 docs to P5
>

> I think I prefer option c. It shouldn't be that difficult given the
> standards' similarity.
>

c definitely sounds the best choice.


> --Chris
>
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Ben
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