[tei-council] TEI TITE question

[Piotr Bański]

On 08/05/12 18:03, Martin Holmes wrote:
> On 12-05-08 08:30 AM, Kevin Hawkins wrote:
>> I know it sounds crazy, but I don't see how we can say that an encoder
>> should be more interested in why something is in italics than in whether
>> a name is a surname, patronymic, forename, etc.  It all depends on what
>> you want to do with your digital text.  That statement from the gentle
>> introduction is even prejudiced, frankly: it assumes certain uses of XML.
> 
> That wasn't what I was saying: my point was that we're typically more 
> interested in what something _is_ (forename, surname, emphasis, book 
> title) than in what it looks like (italics, bold, etc.). One of the 
> reasons TEI XML is more useful than (say) RTF is that it can distinguish 
> between a book title and emphasis, even though both are presented in 
> italics.
> 
> That really does assume certain uses of XML, but I think they're the 
> prototypical TEI uses, aren't they? Otherwise we might as well be using 
> XHTML.

That's my sentiment as well, that's why I said earlier that going in
this direction may make us want to rewrite some of the justification for
the TEI's existence, because I'm not sure if it will still be valid.

  P.