Article:		To Tag or Not to Tag
Subject:		Can TEI/XML really address the problem?
Date:		2004-05-29 00:46:02
From:		Sancho Neves-Graca
Response to: Can TEI/XML really address the problem?
You suggest that XML might not be able to cope with complex documents because of its tree structure. The tree structure is not per se a limiting structural aspect of XML documents. What constrains the structure of an XML document is its schema, what guides the processing are path values and linking elements, and what does the processing are the parsers and transformators. The constraints you indicate are well within the practices of experienced XML developers. It might help you to think whether some mathematical structure with a known visualization can be described in XML, and whether mathematical images described in separate XML documents could be cross-referenced or merged. With the soup of XML technologies (do not reduce your view of XML just to the XML trees!), XML, XSL, XPath, XPointer, etc, many of these structures can be represented. It sure won't be NVS that will break the limits of the XML toolset.

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