CSD (privately)

[Koontz John E]

On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Alan Hartley wrote:
> Would it be impossibly time-consuming to convert the CSD into XML, which
> seems to be gaining currency rapidly in lexicography?

That's an option, though I think that the <tag>...</tag> encoding would be
very difficult to edit directly, i.e., without a tool that hid that
encoding from the editors in the way that Word et al. hide the similarly
cumbersome internal representation for Word documents from Word users.
The editors didn't care for |tag{...} (and I don't blame them) and my
alternative of |tag ... (to be converted back to |tag{...} for publication
formatting came too late.  XML would make a pretty good web publication
format, of course.  It has a tag notation for Unicode characters, I
believe, too, though this makes for bulky files, and, again, wouldn't be
very plesant to edit directly.