Here's the description of a project posted on a literary website by (I'm guessing) a young Shakespeare scholar: "I want to create a comprehensive XML schema for Shakespeare's plays, and then apply the schema in an online prototype. The schema will conform to TEI standards where possible and appropriate, and exceed them where necessary. Creating a DTD will not give us the versatility we want, so we have moved to a schema instead."
"XML schema?" "TEI standards?" "DTD?" What language are we speaking?
Welcome to the digital revolution! He's basically talking about posting Shakespears works (or at least data about it) online in a format flexible enough to be usable to a wide variety of other software. XML is still something of an emerging technology, but a project like that could be quite usefull at some point in the not-so-distant future.
BTW, your "Subscribe to this blog's feed" link is an example of XML. That allows people to access your blog on all kinds of devices not necessarily even limited to computers (i.e., you can access a blog feed using a PDA). It also allows other web sites to syndicate your content in near real time. Pretty nifty stuff. ;-)
Posted by: Sean Robertson | March 01, 2006 at 09:00 AM