VMs: Re: VMS & XML...?

["Rafal T. Prinke" <rafalp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Nick,

> XML would seem to be a good candidate for a bridging "glue" technology to
> bind that kind of thing together.

I would say it should definitely be XML rather than anything else.

> >The problem with the item 'word' is that it is
> >not uniquely defined. Since lines are not too
> >long, I am in favour of keeping that as the
> >smallest unit.
> 
> Fair enough: something like...
> 
> <?xml version='1.0' encoding='windows-1252' standalone='yes'?>
> <VMS>
>     <page name='f0r' hand='A' section='astro'>
>        <url>http://www.voynich.info/images/f0r.jpg</url>
>        <line name='X.01'>

What I suggest is using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
Guidelines which is the de-facto standard for encoding
text in the humanities (which the VMS is). It is very flexible
and ensures future data sharing with others, as well as
support from future text-analysis software.

If my suggestion is accepted, I may prepare a suggested
subset of TEI tags for encoding the VMS interlinear file.

Best regards,

Rafal