Re: TEI/TEI lite support

First of all, I'm delighted to see a fellow TEI encoder on this list. I
will try to comment on Dave's suggestions.

Il sab, 2004-01-31 alle 15:09, Dave Malcolm ha scritto:
> You may be able to add the support yourself!

Unfortunately it's not so simple for full TEI stuff.

> If you have a DTD file to hand, then run Conglomerate, and select
> File->Import, then browse to the DTD file.  You should get a "File
> Import Options" dialog.  Make sure "Convert DTD into a Conglomerate
> Display Specification" is selected and press OK.

Problem is, you don't have a single dtd file for the full TEI
guidelines, you have several, and those I tried to import failed with
lots of errors, possibly because of their intertwined nature.

I managed to load the teixlite.dtd, though, and save a display
specification for Conglomerate. Same for the Digital Scriptorium dtd,
which is based on a single dtd file very similar to the TEI Lite one. 
I still haven't had the time to refine the resulting .xds files, if you
(Walter, I mean :) are interested we can work together on it,
subdividing work and checking each other's files.

> Alternatively, load an example document of the type you wish to support,
> ideally one with a Document Type Declaration referencing a PUBLIC ID
> with a SYSTEM ID referencing the document type definition via http .
> 
> Conglomerate will complain that it doesn't recognise the document type,
> and ask if you wish to load it anyway. Click on the Force button, and
> Conglomerate will generate a display specification as it loads the file.
> You can then go to the Tools menu and select Dump Display Spec. 

This doesn't fit very well with such rich dtds, although it seems to
work better on regular TEI files, because you always end up with a small
subset of the TEI elements.

> Once you have a working xds file for a document type, you can fine-tune
> it in some of these ways:

Thanks for this list, I will look into it ASAP. Walter, drop me a line
if you're interested in joining forces on this, even if only to check my
.xds files with your TEI documents.

Ciao

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