possible workgroup (agenda item)

[Sebastian Rahtz]

My feeling about Patrick's proposal was that it was too low-level. There
are two separate things here:

 a) whether and how to re-write the graph/tree chapter
 b) how to reference foreign namespaces in the TEI

whereas Patrick is assuming that a) is accomplished simply
by working out how to do trees and graphs in SVG. But
SVG is a graphics language; it is a re-expresssion of
PostScript or PDF in a XML syntax, it does not deal
in high-level computation. Making a good tree needs a good
abstract syntax, and then a clever tree engine; the
output from that might well be low-level SVG, or not.

Embedding foreign namespaces in TEI is, in some ways, a non-subject. You
just "do it". 
The demonstration Relax and W3C schemas at
http://www.tei-c.org/Schemas/RelaxNG/P4X/ show how to
use SVG and MathML in TEI contexts (they also show
how to rename TEI elements in schema, if Lou has
exported the development server to the real world in the last day or
two). While the tool support for schemas is iffy, to say the least, the
principle is simple.

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