[sword-devel] TEI markup support

[Troy A. Griffitts]

My one concern about saying that we support TEI for dictionary encoding 
is the confusion it might bring to our support of OSIS.

 From what I remember, the current OSIS plan is to include some set of 
TEI markup to support dictionary markup.  I wonder if things like <ref> 
would be included, since OSIS already includes <reference osisRef=...>.

	-Troy.



DM Smith wrote:
> On May 12, 2008, at 7:10 PM, Chris Little wrote:
> 
>> Our plans are to use TEI for dictionary encoding from here forth.
> 
> Chris has started a wiki for how to encode a TEI dictionary. See: http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/index.php/TEI_Dictionaries
> 
> In Sword's svn you can find tei2mod to build the module. It is  
> discussed on the wiki page.
> 
> 
>> 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...
>>
>>
>> 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?
> 
> It would be nice to get the <ref> element working at least for Bible  
> references and if time permits, internal references.
> 
> We have code that models this already.
> 
>>
>> 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.)
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
> 
> Yes, we are agreed. :)
> 
>>
>> 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).
> 
> These are all beta. And no released frontends support TEI, so any  
> decision has little impact.
> 
>>
>> 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.
> 
> No.
> 
>>
>> 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.
> 
> 
> In looking at the TEI filters that we have today, I think that  
> everything in there is also P5. The reason I favor this is the example  
> (I don't remember where it is) at crosswire.org of remote fetching of  
> entries from another website and displaying them. I think it used our  
> filters. If this still makes sense, then P4 is likely to be a target  
> too.
> 
> 
>>
>> c) convert TEI P4 docs to P5
>>
>> I think I prefer option c. It shouldn't be that difficult given the
>> standards' similarity.
> 
> I find them very similar. I think that we should settle on one style  
> of cross-references as you and I discussed earlier.
> 
> You might find that validating them with your P5 schema will pass.
> 
> In Him,
> 	DM
> 
> 
> 
> 
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