[tei-council] on conformance document
Sebastian Rahtz
sebastian.rahtz at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Tue Aug 22 10:32:14 EDT 2006
Lou's Laptop wrote:
> In terms of complexity, we need to show that it scales up (not a
> problem) but also that it scales down, which we have not bothered much
> about historically, in part because of the nature of SGML. And we need
> to have a metric to assess the interchangeability (that's what the I
> in TEI is for, remember)
silly me, thinking it meant "Initiative".....
> of the resulting documents. That's what conformance is.
does "interchangeability" =~ "interoperability"?
if so, the question remains whether you measure interchangeability
a) as binary, "yes" or "no"
b) on a range between 1 and 10, where you regard 1 as _better_ than 10
c) as one of a set of choices where none is better than any others
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