Extending SGML Concurrent Structures: Toward Computer-Readable Meta-Dictionaries
John Fought · Literary and Linguistic Computing · 1993
We propose the use of SGML2 ‘concurrent structures’ to create and tag the structure of an idealized or virtual document to be mapped on to the tagged structures from actual print dictionaries. The idealized structure is to be defined by a simplified document type definition; the elements of actual print dictionary entries will be rearranged to fit into the resulting template. We use a system of index numbers to link the elements of the generalized entries with their sources in the entries of the actual documents. We illustrate this technique by using it to merge elements from a number of different dictionaries into a generalized entry structure.