xml-dev - Re: Multi lingual glossary or dictionary DTD

[Rick JELLIFFE <ricko@geotempo.com>]

Eric van der Vlist wrote:
> 
> We'd like to publish a bi-lingual glossary for <XML>fr and we are
> looking for an existing DTD or schema to use.
> 
> I have been surprised to find very few works in this area.

Apart from TEI of course, there is an interesting project from Charles
Mueller in Tokyo: it is a multilingual dictionary of Buddhist and East
Asian Literary Terms. Its base is English, with Chinese, Japanese
(kanji, kana and romanji with macrons) and Korean entries.

For a quick example, see
http://www.human.toyogakuen-u.ac.jp/~acmuller/dicts/dealt/data/9e/c9e1e.htm

For the front pages, see
 http://www.human.toyogakuen-u.ac.jp/~acmuller/dicts/dealt/index.htm

Charles is a very interesting guy; he has been working on this project
through many format changes. Last year he was doing it in XML, but he
has now moved back to loose SGML: an HTML superstructure with XML-ish
data islands.  You can see that his approach is to use as specific
markup as possible: his tagset is probably only appropriate for his own
special documents. That is nice to see, amid the current conformism :-) 
(I am not sure of the specific reasons why he decided to abandon XML
currently.)

In my book "The XML & SGML Cookbook" I have about 7 or 8 pages on the
subject of multilingual markup.

Rick Jelliffe

***************************************************************************
This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers.
To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@xml.org&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev
List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/
***************************************************************************