Re: advantages of TEI
Serge Heiden <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.text.tei.general |
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| Organization | ENS de Lyon, Laboratoire IHRIM UMR5317, groupe Cactus |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi Eduard, Le 02/11/2016 à 12:46, Eduard Drenth a écrit : > TEI offers flexibility and freedom (i.g. <span type="lemma" target="w1 > w2"> instead of <lemma target="w1 w2">) that complicates tool > development. How big of a problem is this? From an IT perspective, working with TEI encoded texts is like catching chameleons hopping in XML trees. If you work with people feeding chameleons, you can negotiate some synchronized convergence of colors. Not necessarily the colors of the chameleons themselves (aka local encoding guidelines) but at least how you are supposed to see them. We develop a text analysis and publishing platform called TXM (http://textometrie.ens-lyon.fr/?lang=en) with which we regularly use this strategy through XSLT adapters to help colleagues analyze and publish their TEI texts. Often because projects tend to encode their texts before choosing a final analysis and publishing platform. However, it is not easy to choose a TEI aware analysis and publishing platform (established software or adaptable framework) because it is not easy to specify what analyzing and reading mean. A kind of "chicken or egg" dilemma, with chameleons... See this tutorial for TXM TEI import strategy introduction and examples (sorry for French): https://groupes.renater.fr/wiki/txm-users/public/tutoriels_import_xml-tei Another strategy is to negotiate convergence to a manageable subset of TEI like TEI lite, tite, simple, zero... (we are designing the latter for TXM work). Best, Serge -- Dr. Serge Heiden, [email protected], http://textometrie.ens-lyon.fr ENS de Lyon/CNRS - IHRIM UMR5317 15, parvis René Descartes 69342 Lyon BP7000 Cedex, tél. +33(0)622003883