[DDI-users] Formatting in question text

[Mark R. Diggory]

True, I agree that one would want to use the "least obscure" tagset.

I-Lin Kuo wrote:

> 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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> 

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