Re: Your dictionary online?
| From: | taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, October 14, 2007, 13:59 |
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* li_sasxsek@NUTTER.NET said on 2007-10-14 03:53:43 +0200
> I know this thread is a bit old, but I had an idea a while
> back for an XML-based dictionary. I believe that others have
> already done work in this area, so if someone could steer me
> that direction, I'd appreciate it. I got as far as trying to
> create a style sheet to format the XML. I like the idea of
> using XML because it allows a bit more flexibility that just
> creating a flat database full of memo fields.
Freedict uses a subset of the TEI dictionary format, which is
XML. There are ready-made tools for further processing for
TEI-marked up files. I don't use their format as I use
shoebox/toolbox and their format seems too simple to easily
convert from shoebox/toolbox to their format.
See http://www.freedict.org/howto/ch05.html
t.
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