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From: enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum)
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Subject: Re: Public Domain Dictionary
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Date: 13 Jun 91 00:37:35 GMT
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In-Reply-To: lark@greylock.tivoli.com's message of 10 Jun 91 17: 19:45 GMT
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Lar Kaufman <lark@greylock.tivoli.com> writes:
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|   It would be interesting to see what the guys at U. of Waterloo did
|   with the online O.E.D. project.  I understand it is very SGML-like.

They have used a portion of SGML's syntax, which, I'm sorry to say,
does not make it SGML-conformant.  As I heard the story, it was too
many inconsistencies in the original material to try to make a DTD for
OED2.

What I've seen of the OED2 is not pretty, so they obviously had a very
hard job figuring out how to encode it and actually do the encoding.
We're creating a dictionary from scratch (aren't we? :-), so we could,
perhaps, be better at consistency...

Let's try to look at how other people did their dictionary entries,
and what we would like to include, in what order, then test that by
submitting numerous entries to these constraints before continuing.
Changes in the structure is going to make a lot of people unhappy and
create a lot of unnecessary work.  (Converting between structures is
possible, but generally difficult.)

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