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Hi Jonathan,<br>
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The gloss should be a tag and not an attribute. It looks like your
example comes from the SignPuddle 1.0 export, which does not follow the
DTD. That's a defect.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle/swml/swml-s.dtd">http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle/swml/swml-s.dtd</a><br>
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Jonathan wrote:<br>
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I image
that the "gloss" tag was meant so that there could be several glosses
per sign. Is this right? If it is so then the "symbol" tags should be
withing the "gloss" tag or else we won't know which "symbol" tag
belongs to which "gloss" tag. It isn't enough that the "gloss" tag
come first. <br>
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Each sign can have multiple glosses and multiple symbols. The glosses
and symbols are not directly related. The symbols make up the sign.
And the gloss describes the sign in English words. <br>
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For example, the sign for the ASL number one has a single symbol, but
multiple glosses.<br>
<sign><br>
<gloss>one</gloss><br>
<gloss>1</gloss><br>
<gloss>uno</gloss><br>
<symbol x="1" y="1">01-01-001-01-01-01</symbol><br>
</sign><br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:46539851.9050806@yahoo.ca" type="cite">My other
comment about SBML which I realized was made especially for
SignBank which I am sure works just fine. But SBML uses comma
separated values. Which are fine, I use them all them time. But I
feel that they are out of context in an XML file. As is I can load the
SBML into objects or a dataset but I still have to parse the build and
the sequence to get to the information. But if each comma separated
value has it's own tag, it will load just as fast into an object or
dataset and I don't have to do any parsing to get at the information.
So for a SignWriting exchange format, I strongly suggest staying away
from comma delimited strings.<br>
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Hmm. I can understand your feeling. I'm not sure which style I'm
going to use for STML. I should probably use the verbose tag style,
but I've never had a case where I was glad I chose the verbose style
over the build format for SWML-S. <br>
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Regards,<br>
-Steve<br>
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