XML and the text-encoding intitiative

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  • February 28, 2019
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  • Winget, Megan
    • Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science
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  • This paper examines how documents marked up using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) SGML guidelines might be automatically transformed to conform to Document Type Definitions (DTDs) in the Extensible Markup Language (XML). The paper provides an overview of the TEI guidelines, and the TEI-Lite subset. There is a survey of XML with particular attention paid to the proposed XML version of the TEI-Lite DTD. Preliminary experiments returned a 31% success rate, showing that the available tools that translate SGML TEI-Lite conformant documents to XML versions are flawed. These tools require significant manual intervention in order to function correctly. This paper concludes that if we can overcome the problems with translation, XML will become the chief means for transmitting and publishing texts on the web. Sources include publicly available web pages and standards body produced specifications.
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  • Viles, Charles L.
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  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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  • December 10, 2010

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