VMs: Re: VMS & XML...?

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

Dear Jan,

Thank you for your support of the TEI encoding proposal.
I have been playing with TEI for quite some time now
(I still have some SGML TEI files on my web site - which
no one can see since Panorama browser ceased to be
freeware) - even acting as a reviewer of one chapter
in the new P-4 Guidelines.

> Even though TEI
> positions itself as a general standard, it is *especially*
> well suited for (old) manuscripts, since many projects has
> been compiled using that portion of TEI.

In fact there are extensions of the standard which is
especially concerned with MSS - see:

  http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Scriptorium/dsguide1.html

> I am not talking about the encoding issue - any entity-based
> scheme can be adopted before the VMS alphabet issues will be
> solved (if at all) - but rather about all the rest: headers,
> comments, glosses, folio info, etc., etc. The mere fact that
> the VMS will be standardized by some standard (and there is
> no other proven standard for manuscript but the TEI today)
> will be worth the effort.

Exactly.

Best regards,

Rafal