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October 1, 2008 2:25 PM

The Text Encoding Initiative Consortium has encoded Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues. via
posted by Knappster (9 comments total)

Cheers Knappster, you just made me chuckle slightly while reading an XML file. I never thought that would happen.
posted by jack_mo at 2:40 PM on October 1, 2008

I almost structured my comment in XML, but realized I'm too old to spend time on this sort of thing. I'm glad somebody out there feels otherwise.
posted by davejay at 2:56 PM on October 1, 2008 [1 favorite]

non-deterministic content model
posted by mandal at 3:10 PM on October 1, 2008

Hey, interesting. Not heard of the TEI before. Should I think of it as a competitor to the Dublin Core set of elements, or can/should you use Dublin Core elements in TEI documents (without doing Namespace stuff, I mean)?
posted by alasdair at 3:44 PM on October 1, 2008

Am I missing something or did they only mark up selected words and phrases, not the full lyrics? Isn't the ability to have your annotations inline in the text part of the idea with TEI?
posted by enn at 4:27 PM on October 1, 2008

Now can they do Springsteen's Blinded By the Light?
posted by NoMich at 6:29 PM on October 1, 2008

XML is self-describing self-parodying markup
posted by blasdelf at 9:35 PM on October 1, 2008 [1 favorite]

...oddly, I'm just sitting here going "Man, those kinds of scrolls are a *bitch* to roll up in FCP. I wonder if they just used a truly giant set of Illustrator documents, or they went for After Effects instead."

wrong kind of geek
posted by fairytale of los angeles at 10:57 PM on October 1, 2008

Hey! Nobody be makin' fun of XML now, here?
posted by XMLicious at 5:40 AM on October 2, 2008