Re: XML for linguists?

And Rosta wrote:

> The major hurdle is establishing the content of the markup
> scheme - the semantics, or the lexicon, as it were. SGML/XML just
> provides the syntax. There are lots of descriptive and
> theoretical linguistic frameworks that have developed a
> metalanguage for representing language. The snag for a
> "standards"-oriented project such as yours or the TEI is
> there is no worthwhile consensus to be achieved on what
> the 'lexicon/semantics' of the common metalanguage should
> be.
Mine was more of a conjecture than a real project;
I can't imagine how to proceed further with it.
The idea of a parse tree seems to map directly
onto XML, but so does gold to pyrite.

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