Talk:Philosophy Guide to creating HTML versions

This should be greatly expanded and revised. Vaguery 07:14, 21 May 2006 (PDT)

I wouldn't want us spend too much time on it. We'd better promote the XML way: PPing with TEI. --Keichwa 07:16, 21 May 2006 (PDT)

I suspect we'll want to promote them all. This is, after all, an informational site. Many folks (and the people who read their books) prefer HTML, because it's what they're familiar with. There are numerous eBook standards we could consider as well: Adobe PDF, OpenReader, Plucker. Heck, some prefer some other markup methods (which will remain unnamed for fear of summoning them)! Vaguery 07:22, 21 May 2006 (PDT)

Seems like a misunderstanding. HTML is one of the XML output formats and so are PDF and the so-called ASCII format, etc. --Keichwa 08:03, 21 May 2006 (PDT)

Yes. I suspect most people, including PPers, who generate HTML versions are simply concerned with the creation of the final file format, not intermediate formats. I understand how XML works,and what it's for. Most users here, though, do not. In creating an HTML file, they will almost always do so based on the text file, until TEI or other XML formats can be generated automatically, that is.... Vaguery 08:07, 21 May 2006 (PDT)

The samples suggest XHTML, which is fine, if done consistently and advertised as such, but it should be noted that most current browsers treat XHTML as 'tag soup'. I use TEI (SGML incarnation, but that aside), and generate valid HTML 4.0 Transistional, not XHTML.--Jeroen Hellingman.