[tei-council] TEI for publishing: archival or interchange format? (was Re: What's next on the TEI publishing thread)

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 1 Sep 2010, at 23:35, Lou Burnard wrote:

> On 01/09/10 23:13, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>> 
>> As for
>> TEI to Docbook, thats potentially impossible.
>> 
> 
> Oh well, if it's only *potentially* impossible ...

it depends on the spec of a translation. plainly, you cant keep all the semantic distinctions of TEI in Docbook.
and there are all the things we can mark up in TEI which simply have no presentation corollary.
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