Re: XML for linguists?

On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Brook Conner wrote:

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>
> Extend the DTD as you add features to Kura, e.g., alternative
> translations.  But I'd go for a fairly rigorous DTD - makes the map
> from the DTD to internal data structures much clearer.  E.g., (in
> Haskell, but it should be clear):
>
Thanks for the input! This is one area where I don't think I'm really
competent enought at the moment. I thought I'd go without an explicit
DTD, but I'll look into it - one of the problems is that I'm a bit
wary of working with the specification (ever since having tried to
build a mail-reader using only RFC's), and the bookshops are full of
junk that look like hasty rewrites of junk on HTML.

>
> Goldfarb should be good, even if it isn't O'Reilly - he literally
> wrote the book on SGML.
>
Have you used the book yourself? If it's really good, I'll be ordering
it tonight...


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