Dear Jon, Frank and friends,

as discussed earlier, I have prepared a very rough draft, which is
meant to highlight several of the points I have mentioned to be
characteristics of the schema I intend to develop. I believe more work
is required to make it a working schema. Here it goes,

<!ELEMENT pali_texts (text*)>
<!ELEMENT text (title+, principal, order, superorder*, suborder*,
ordinality, section*)>
<!ELEMENT title (#PCDATA)>
<!ATTLIST title language CDATA #IMPLIED>
<!ELEMENT principal (#PCDATA)>
<!ATTLIST principal edition CDATA #IMPLIED>
<!ELEMENT order (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT superorder (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT suborder (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT ordinality (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT section (heading?, contents*)>
<!ELEMENT heading (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT contents (paragraph|verse)*>
<!ELEMENT paragraph (sentence+)>
<!ELEMENT sentence (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT verse (line+)>
<!ELEMENT line (#PCDATA)>

As we would not wish to turn this into a programming list, I have
created a mailing list to continue our discussion on this topic. All
members are welcome to participate on the new list. Jon and Frank will
receive an invitation. For more details, please visit:
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/suttasenze-pdf-xml


metta,
Yong Peng.

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, ong.yongpeng wrote:

This week, I will present a draft to the group. The draft shall
include your first suggestion, i.e. verse-by-verse text encoding.