[
Lists Home |
Date Index |
Thread Index
]
At 03:13 PM 1/11/2002 -0500, Mike Champion wrote:
>Kick me out of the fraternity if you want, but I can
>imagine doing this input, validation, display job
>MUCH easier with procedural code than XML ....Can
>somebody restore my faith (which I almost had, for a
>minute there) in strongly typed XML and declarative
>processing?
The following covers at least the syllabification:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!ENTITY % normal.foot "(%iamb; | %anapest; | %tertius.paeon; )">
<!ENTITY % last.foot "(%iamb; | %anapest; | %tertius.paeon; )">
<!ENTITY % iamb "( da, dum )">
<!ENTITY % anapest "( da, da, dum )">
<!ENTITY % tertius.paeon "( da, da, dum, da )">
<!ELEMENT da (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT dum (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT limerick (long, long, short, short, long)>
<!ELEMENT long ( %normal.foot;, %normal.foot;, %last.foot; )>
<!ELEMENT short ( %normal.foot;, %last.foot; )>
Here is an XML instance that validates against the DTD:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE limerick SYSTEM "c:/temp/limerick.dtd">
<limerick>
<long>
<da>There</da>
<dum>was</dum>
<da>a</da>
<da>young</da>
<dum>la</dum>
<da>dy</da>
<da>named</da>
<dum>Bright</dum>
</long>
<long>
<da>Who</da>
<da>could</da>
<dum>trav</dum>
<da>el</da>
<da>much</da>
<dum>fast</dum>
<da>er</da>
<da>than</da>
<dum>light</dum>
</long>
<short>
<da>She</da>
<dum>set</dum>
<da>out</da>
<da>one</da>
<dum>day</dum>
</short>
<short>
<da>In</da>
<da>a</da>
<dum>rel</dum>
<da>a</da>
<da>tive</da>
<dum>way</dum>
</short>
<long>
<da>And</da>
<da>re</da>
<dum>turned</dum>
<da>on</da>
<da>the</da>
<dum>prev</dum>
<da>i</da>
<da>ous</da>
<dum>night</dum>
</long>
</limerick>
Some work remains to be done here. First, I have not represented word
boundaries or punctuation here. This brings up the topic of multiple
concurrent hierarchies, which could be addressed in a number of ways,
including TEI milestones or stand-off markup.
Once the words are represented, we have to determine whether stress is
accurately represented. This requires access to a dictionary of the
language that represents stress and syllabification. GIven this, a schema
adjunct could be written, using a vocabulary designed to determine if the
marked-up stress is accurate. Similarly, another vocabulary could be
designed to represent the desired rhyme scheme, and this could leverage a
rhyming dictionary. Both of these dictionaries should be represented as
XML, of course.
A stylesheet can be written to provide a standard representation of this.
Shall we start this project on Sourceforge?
Jonathan
|
