[DDI-users] Formatting in question text

[I-Lin Kuo]

I think that's a related but separate issue. I would prefer to have only content
structure tags in the DDI as well, but IF presentation tags have to be
included, then I would prefer that they be from the HTML tagset rather than the
more obscure TEI, espcially if it's only < 10 tags.

Quoting "Mark R. Diggory" <mdiggory at latte.harvard.edu>:

> As someone who spends allot of time "rendering" DDI content, I have to 
> say I have mixed feelings about the inclusion of html into the content. 
> I tolerate it, but do not recommend it. HTML is presentation layer, not 
> DDI is in the Content Layer. Certain document structuring elements 
> <p><ul><li>... are beneficial, but  things like font, weight <em><b> and 
> layout <div> should not be in and XML document that is expressing data 
> content.
> 
> -Mark
> 
> I-Lin Kuo wrote:
> > certain elements in the ddi allow formatting tags from the TEI namespace.
> The
> > allowed formatting tags are 
> > 
> > <!ENTITY % e.form    'div|emph|head|hi|itm|list|p'                     >
> > 
> > Not all elements admit TEI tags, however. You will have to check the DTD to
> see
> > if the element you want marked up allows TEI formatting tags. If it does,
> then
> > it will look something like this:
> > 
> > <!ELEMENT sampProc     (#PCDATA|txt|concept|%a.phrase;|%e.form;)*        >
> > 
> > with "e.form" in it.
> > 
> > By the way, I just want to voice my opinion that the choice of TEI tags
> rather
> > than HTML was a poor choice.
> > 
> > 
> > Quoting Andrew L Arnott <relate_webmaster at byu.edu>:
> > 
> > 
> >>Hey everyone,
> >>
> >>Since the schema is closed, I can't put italics or other formatting in the
> >>question text of my variables using HTML tags.  I have seen disguising the
> >>formatting markup using identities like this:
> >>This is my &lt;em&gt;specially formatted&lt;/em&gt; question
> >>To essentially get this:
> >>This is my <em>specially formatted</em> question
> >>
> >>My problem with this is an XSLT transforms the DDI into browser HTML, and
> I
> >>don't know how to write code to reverse this disguising process.  
> >>
> >>Has anyone done this, or have other ideas on how to accomplish this?
> >>
> >>Thanks in advance,
> >>Andrew Arnott
> >>
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> > 
> > 
> 
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> Mark Diggory
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I-Lin Kuo
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