[Corpora-List] Is the TEI a waste of time? / Lack of TEI software tools

From: Oliver Mason (O.Mason@bham.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Jul 04 2003 - 13:20:58 MET DST

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    I would guess that most software uses internal, non-XML formats, as they
    are generally easier to process from a programmer's point of view and
    more efficient computationally; and if you've got large corpora time and
    space efficiency are quite important. My own approach has always been
    that TEI-style markup is fine for exchanging data, but when it is being
    indexed and prepared for processing it'll be converted into some
    tool-specific form.

    So, yes, the TEI is important, as it means that there is a standard for
    the data that's coming in, even though corpus processing software will
    typically not operate directly on that. Corpus tools should accept TEI
    marked-up data, but might convert it into their own format.

    Oliver

    PS Of course I'm not denying that it is possible to write concordancing
       software that works with XML data.

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