[tei-council] Question regarding TEI influence

Laurent Romary laurent.romary at loria.fr
Tue Apr 7 12:31:45 EDT 2009


I would be willing to have similar information that I could even put  
on slides.
Cheers,
Laurent

Le 7 avr. 09 à 18:13, Dan O'Donnell a écrit :

> Hi all,
>
> I have a question I want to ask here we everybody knows how stupid I  
> can
> be, rather than on TEI-L where it might shock and appal.
>
> I was having a conversation with somebody sometime recently when they
> said that the TEI doesn't do enough to advertise its historical
> importance on the development of the modern internet, particularly  
> XML.
> When I have these kinds of conversations with others, I mention the  
> fact
> that one of our original editors went on to play a leading role in the
> development of the XML spec, and that XPath is indebted heavily to our
> XPointer syntax.
>
> Are there other things? And is that last claim really as true as I  
> make
> it sound? I'd be interested in making up a list of technology the TEI
> has influenced.
>
> -dan
>
> -- 
> Daniel Paul O'Donnell
> Associate Professor of English
> University of Lethbridge
>
> Chair and CEO, Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org/)
> Founding Director, Digital Medievalist Project (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ 
> )
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>
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