On Friday 21 June 2002 10:44, Perl Authors Upload Server wrote: > This library package is not the most easiest to classify. The Text > Encoding Initiative is a group that has defined a schema originally > SGML based for the generic mark-up of documents. It is slowly > starting to be adopted by libraries and electronic document centers > (even more so now that an XML version of the specification has been > produced). The TEI specification is quite large as it is designed to > be able to markup from everything to songs to poetry to technical > papers to novels. Since the full TEI specification is quite large a > 'Lite' version was made that is a subset that allows a person to > markup over 90% of the type of documents one would encounter. The > goal of this library is to implement the TEILite specification that > is based on XML as this seems to be the most common path that > libraries and such are using. It might be better to make a generic > TEI root node and put this under TEI::TEILite or possibly > XML::Schema::TEILite. I think I would like to stay away from the > XML::Schema::TEILite as the XML::Schema might provide the wrong > impression (as in modules for building XML schema models).
Applications of XML often tend to go directly under the XML:: namespace. I'm ready to be proven wrong but I don't think TEI needs a top level namespace of its own. XML::Schema is probably a bad choice too, as people would indeed think that it is an implementation of W3C XML Schema (and if they have any sense, run away fast ;). Given that it is a DOM wrapper, why not simply XML::TEILite? -- Robin Berjon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- for hire: http://robin.berjon.com/ A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention, with the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequila.
