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XML for Ancients

Posted by michael on from the still-pumped-from-using-the-chisel dept.

Andrew writes: "More than 5,000 years ago, the very first information revolution occurred when some unknown research team in Mesopotamia found a way to download and store language through a killer application called "writing.". The cuneiform digital library will have 60,000 texts ready in a couple of years. Using SVG and XML to represent their documents. Similar efforts are underway for hieroglyphics."

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  1. Re:XML is a poor choice for cuneiform by jallen02 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Thats why.. They are using SVG! The XML can be used to store meta data or even the document with the SVG references for the cuneiform characters.

    Run through an XSLT transformation.. Voila... HTML or PDF representing the cuneiform document (Do texts written in cuneiform qualify as documents??!? ;).

    Jeremy