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I now see why it might take a year to get updates into XQuery, it is all
very obvious now ...
From: "Jonathan Robie" <jonathan.robie@softwareag.com>
To: "Mike Champion" <mc@xegesis.org>; <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 5:51 PM
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Re:[xml-dev] [ANN] XML Limerick Competition
> 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
>
>
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