Document Schema Meeting
 
Klaus Thoden
November 10, 2008

Present: MDH, WS, KT

1 First sketch

WS did a first sketch of a schema for the ECHO documents. The following discussion was based on this.

1.1 Issues

1.1.1 Different schemata

Two different schemata could be used: ECHO strict and ECHO loose. These two schemata share the core modules but differ in some respects.

For example, the logical strucure of a book could demand a fixed set of categories (e. g. part, chapter, section, etc.) or be left open, in case there is no such concept of a structure.

1.1.2 Specifying language

A language tag should be applied at any level in the text (text, div, p, s). The problem here, a figure does not need a lanugage tag. The caption, however, should have it. This might be problematic if caption is a child of figure.

1.1.3 Pagebreak

Pagebreaks are problematic in many ways. Firstly, we use them to mark the beginning of a page, not the pagebreak. Secondly, the running head should be included as well. The format of the running head would have to be exclusively marked up with style attributes.

1.1.4 Styles

Styles are to be realized by CSS, for example: In paragraph <num value=’’3’’ font-weight:bold >III</num> it is said ...

2 What to do

• Decide on the macrolevel structure to put everything into SVN
• Think about how to handle quotations