[tei-council] "Getting Started" update

[Arianna Ciula]

Hi Peter,

you should have my draft soon too (I was away for another seminar out of 
the country until Saturday).

Arianna

Peter Boot wrote:
> David Sewell schreef:
>> I've written a good chunk, but not all, of a first draft of the
>> Technical Background chapter, and updated Sourceforge.
> 
> Thank you, David. This looks quite good.
> 
>> 1. I started a section on namespaces, but I wonder if the topic should
>> be introduced later. It is probably the trickiest thing to explain as
>> part of a basic introduction.
> 
> I think it's unavoidable. People will get confused if we don't explain
> what this 'tei:' thing is than can apparently appear or not appear at
> random. The stylesheets for instance use the prefix everywhere.
> 
>> 2. I will have no trouble creating very basic examples of the use of CSS
>> and XSLT to transform simple XML for browser viewing (using the nursery
>> rhyme example). But, Peter, I'm not quite sure what you mean in your
>> original outline by:
>>
>> "The web, web servers, html, browsers. One very simple HTML example,
>> then point to other resources: 5p"
>>
>> Do you mean that "Technical Background" should include basic information
>> about all of those things? Can we not assume that for practical purposes
>> most readers of this document will already know about them?
>>
>> My thought was that it should be possible to talk about HTML
>> sufficiently in the context of "how to get from XML to the browser".
> 
> I regularly meet people for whom the word 'browser' doesn't mean much.
> They 'open the internet' on their computer without realising that they
> are opening a browser, and that they might use another browser. My idea
> was that it would be good to explain this. That opening a browser and
> asking for a page with a url means that the browser asks a server
> identified by the first part of the url for that page. It may be true
> that if you need to be explained things at that level you probably won't
> get far though.
> 
> There were a few places in your draft which I felt were perhaps too
> difficult for beginners. You use the word 'parse' without explanation.
> And the 'should be fairly intuitive' in the explanation of the DTD might
> make beginners think that this is not for them.
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> Peter
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