- From: Liam R. E. Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2017 14:03:00 -0400
- To: Daniel Bennett <daniel@citizencontact.com>, public-publishingbg@w3.org
On Thu, 2017-09-07 at 13:56 -0400, Daniel Bennett wrote: > [...] > The second question, and as a strong supporter of XML, is it possible > to > semantically represent math with XML? For example, there is no real > way > to have page and line numbers in XML as well as paragraphs that span > them, as this breaks nestedness. The usual approach involves thinking of page breaks as separations rather than containers and then using empty XML elements to represent them; the same for line divisions (except for poetry, where the lines are part of the content). For rhetorical overlap with structure, such as a quotation that goes from the middle of one paragraph to the middle of the next, a representation of one structure or the other as primary and using attributes to link together e.g. a continued quotation, is a common approach. The people at the Text Encoding Initiative and more generally Digital Humanities have been doing these things for decades, so it's a question of knowing where to look ;-) There've been papers on representing overlap in XML presented at Extreme Markup and, later, Balisage, conferences. Best, Liam > -- Liam Quin, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Staff contact for Verifiable Claims WG, SVG, XQuery WG Web slave for http://www.fromoldbooks.org/
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