Article:		To Tag or Not to Tag
Subject:		Can TEI/XML really address the problem?
Date:		2004-06-02 06:45:49
From:		Damian Cugley
Response to: Can TEI/XML really address the problem?
The fragment above shows how they have already had to compromise when structuring the text as a hierarchy. Logically, the verse lines should all be XML elements. Logically, each speach from a player should be an XML element. But speaches can contain many verse lines, but at the same time a verse line can be split between more than one speaker. Their compromise is to not mark up lines but instead to mark line *breaks* (the `lb` elements). To get the text of line 99 you presumably find the specified `lb` element and then extract text until the next one. For what it's worth, there is a mark-up language specifically designed to work with overlapping text ranges: LMNL <http://www.lmnl.net/>. The site seems to be pretty moribund, however.

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