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Quoting Ciaran S Duibhmn <ciaran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
BTW, I use lax variants of TEI for dictionaries.
Jeroen.
Re: [xsl] Advice on dictionary conversion
Subject: Re: [xsl] Advice on dictionary conversion From: jeroen@xxxxxxxx Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 23:19:55 +0100 |
Quoting Ciaran S Duibhmn <ciaran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
I wish to convert a bilingual dictionary from MS-Word format to "properly"-tagged XML, and I hope I may ask for some comment on the feasibility of this, using XSLT or otherwise.
I have some experience with converting dictionaries from a "typographically" tagged format to a semantically tagged format, and found that this, even with a well organized dictionary is a very time-consuming job.
The right question to ask is thus how far do you need to go, which depends on your target application. If this is just to make the dictionary searchable for human users, your probably are already far enough when every entry is encapsulated in <entry> and <headwords> stand out, besides of course retaining the typography. If the dictionary needs to be smarter, you will find a lot of cases where the typographic rules have been used in a lax way, such that any program fails and requiring human review to get right. Quite a daunting task for a 5 megabyte blob of text.
Having said that, I've created a few XLST scripts to "up-tag" a typographic dictionary (assisted and glued together with Perl). Running this not only requires tweaking on the conversion scripts, but also on the dictionary data, to convert necessary tagging errors and omission. I found myself using a lot of nested <xsl:for-each-group> statements to group tenses and meanings together based on typographic hints.
BTW, I use lax variants of TEI for dictionaries.
Jeroen.
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