Re: [Bug-gnupedia] XML Article format

[Mike Warren]

Duncan Lock <address@hidden> writes:

>       <content
>               title=""
>               subject=""
>               category=""
>               subcategory="" />
>               
>               <!-- 
>                       Article body goes here, using, possibly,
>                       pretty standard HTML tags: <h1>, <h2> etc, 
>                       <p>, <em>, <strong> and so on.
>               -->
>       </content>

In the content, it may also be useful to have tags like these (I saw
something similar in the Nupedia archives):

  <name/Mike Warren/> is a <age>twenty-three</age> year old
  <occupation>computer programmer</occupation> in <location>Calgary,
  Alberta</location>.

[I'm not too up on XML; I hope that first tag is right! ;)]

The idea would be to give hints to the system as to how to interpret
the text. Ideally, they would be intuitively obvious (to a
non-technical content author) and merely encapsulate text which could
easily be read with such tags stripped out. This would encourage
content-authors to include such mark-up, and greatly add to the
knowledge of the system. Obviously, some things (like URLs) can be
easily recognized, but other things aren't so obvious (especially
place-names versus people's names). Also, it might help to have
<date>early 2001</date> instead of trying to make regular expressions
to search for such things.

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