FYI -- Martin Wheeler - StarTEXT, Glastonbury, Somerset, England - BA6 9PH [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.startext.co.uk/
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 15:27:55 -0600 From: C M Sperberg-McQueen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Well-formed documents and analyzing software >Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 13:26:26 -0600 >Reply-To: TEI Technical Review discussion list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sender: TEI Technical Review discussion list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: William Fietzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... >What I want to know is how well such an analyzed encoded document conforms >to the XML standards of a well-formed document. Put simply, would XML be >able to "read" such documents as it would be able to do with documents >encoded in Author/Editor or Dynatext? Does anyone know about this or is >familiar with the capabilities of these two brands of software? If you >could direct me to a site or a guru in this area I would appreciate it. I'm not sure I understand the question. XML is not a piece of software, so one answer is No, XML cannot "read" such documents, any more than it can read A/E files. Whether the files created with NUDIST and ATLAS are well-formed XML or not depends on the file format. At a rough guess, if these programs were created before the publication of the XML 1.0 spec, the chances are strongly against the files being well-formed XML as they sit. Whether they can easily be translated into well-formed XML depends on how they look. Tutorials and introductory information about SGML and XML can be found in a number of places, including the TEI's home page at http://www.uic.edu/orgs/tei and Robin Cover's SGML/XML Web page at http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/ -- it is the single best place to get information about XML and SGML. From that address you will also find links to Steve Pepper's Whirlwind Guide to SGML & XML Tools and Vendors, which is at http://www.infotek.no/sgmltool/guide.htm and which may provide some useful information about the kinds of things Author/Editor and DynaText do, and the way they use SGML. I hope this helps. -C. M. Sperberg-McQueen Senior Research Programmer, University of Illinois at Chicago
