Jon, and all others interested.
.
> Some progress can be made by using SGML (see their web site), which
I am
> moving towards for the encoding of Early New High German texts in
> connection with the ENHG dictionary and other projects here in
Newcastle.
I hope that's going to be xml, not "full-blown" sgml. I'm a long
way into xml encoding for information retrieval and real-time
html rendering, including some lexicographical applications, as
well as for my own publications as announced here.
So please feel free to put and keep me "in the loop" wie man
so schoen sagt on any such matters.
On the whole, University computer services are some way
behind on real-world xml issues, even though many academic
text-handling problems are crying out for such such approaches.
But no sooner does someone in academic IT acquire real xml
expertise than they are snapped up for a large salary by the
commercial sector.
> So I would encourage would-be encoders of Early Modern German texts
to
> contact me, simply so that we don't each re-invent the wheel, and so
that
> we produce compatible texts using conventions which we can encourage
> developers of browsers and associated software to adopt.
If you get the xml right, there'll be no need to encourage browser
developers to adopt your conventions. It will just work. xml, properly
used, is "self-describing". No special action is needed to make it
comprehensible to clients. (Well, there are, as always, a few
snaglets still, but all the same...)
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Michael Beddow
http://www.mbeddow.net/
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