[DDI-users] Passing line breaks to DDI-XML, continued

[Fredy Kuhn]

Hi Sanda, and all the others,

I grabbed out the e-mail below, and wanted to ask about the state of the =
art concerning formatting tags. Are they available? Can anybody show me =
a XML example how to use them?

The only search result about 'formatting tags' is a report as of =
june-15,2002:
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/DDI/ORG/min6-15-02.html

To provoke at bit: You might agree that the 'series information' in:
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu:8080/DDI/SAMPLES/07728.xml
looks terrible, and nobody reads this. Some of the tag contents should =
rather appear as formatted texts, and might have lot of information, =
like abstract. <pre> is a solution, but not the best.


Regards
Freddy Kuhn, SIDOS
www.sidos.ch


----- Original Message -----=20
From: "Sanda Ionescu" <sandai@icpsr.umich.edu>
To: <ddi-users@icpsr.umich.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 9:11 PM
Subject: [DDI-users] Passing line breaks to DDI-XML


> The DDI Committee has addressed the need to preserve text formatting =
in DDI.
> Recently it has approved the introduction of a number of formatting =
tags=20
> within all elements that contain PCDATA.
> At ICPSR we are now in the process of enabling these tags in a =
development=20
> version of the DTD, which will be posted
> on the DDI site within a few days. We will announce the posting =
through=20
> this list, and will certainly welcome any feedback on the new tags and =

> other minor changes.
> So please stay tuned!
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> Sanda Ionescu
> Research Associate
> Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
> 311 Maynard St.
> Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2211
> Phone: (734) 998-9895
> Fax (734) 998-9889
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