> The TEI folks call what I call "marking up"
> and some call "tagging" by the name of
> "encoding" and they hire folks to "encode"
> historical documents.
Well, any community is entitled to its own jargon, but this seems poorly
chosen. If the process involves changing "Gloucestershire" to
"<county>GLS</county>" then it seems reasonable to call it "encoding"; it it
involves changing "Gloucestershire" to "<county>Gloucestershire</county>"
then I don't think "encoding" is the right word at all.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
