Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Re: Classification difficulty and incompletene ss

[Bob Dodd]

Even if DocBook (or Nupedia's DTD if its suitable) is not directly
suitable, I assume we could just extend their concept of "content" to
allow (say) a hierarchy of components. Each componet could then be
described MIME stype, with the opportunity to add further supported
types (Math ML etc.) later. Actually, if we used standard MIME types,
it would make presentation of the material, and the likes of copy/paste
of content from the 'pedia into other documents/mail tools much easier.

/Bob Dodd

--- "Thomas E. Vaughan" <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 01:47:32PM -0000, Duncan Lock wrote:
> >
> > I don't know much about DocBook (I know what it is I just haven't
> > used it, although I plan to.) You sound like you do - would it be
> possible/
> > desirable to use DocBook as it stands for encyclopaedia articles,
> in your
> > opinion?
> 
> I keep piping up about this because, if we are really serious, then
> we NEED
> to be able to support serious math content in the best possible way. 
> If
> each article must have only a single, unified <content> section that
> only
> supports a subset of HTML, then are we ruling out the possibility
> that an
> article might have several HTML nodes, as in the default output of
> latex2html?  And how many HTML tags shall we support?  I still don't
> know
> how MathML will fit into all of this.
> 
> In a previous message, I tried to bring up for discussion the issue
> of just
> replacing the <content> section with a URL to a page that the author
> provides.  At least at first, this would give scalability and reduce
> the
> central resource requirements.
> 
> -- 
> Thomas E. Vaughan <address@hidden>
> CIMMS/NSSL, Norman, OK, USA
> 
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