Basic Tagging Julia Flanders Texas A & M University Women Writers Project (via website)
wwp@Brown.edu

Copyright 2007 Syd Bauman, Julia Flanders, and Brown WWP

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This is the source.

Based on the same talk at UCLA, 2007-05.

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    Chapter 1: The Manor House   Charles hadn’t visited the manor house since Easter, 1955, and now he remembered why.   “Hullo”, he called out as he walked up the drive, and then, as if to himself, “To be or not to be?, to walk or not to walk...oh, hang it all!” His meditation on Hamlet was interrupted as he collided with a peacock. “Sacré bleu!” he exclaimed with irritation, his sang-froid completely deserting him. It was going to be a long week. His catalog of irritations included:   1. The weather   2. The peacocks   3. His meagre grasp of French

Basic Prose Tagging

Simple, intuitive elements: Chapter 1: The Manor House

Charles hadn’t visited the manor house since Easter, 1955, and now he remembered why.

“Hullo”, he called out as he walked up the drive, and then, as if to himself, “To be or not to be?, to walk or not to walk...oh, hang it all!” His meditation on Hamlet was interrupted as he collided with a peacock. “Sacré bleu!” he exclaimed with irritation, his sang-froid completely deserting him. It was going to be a long week. His catalog of irritations included: 1. The weather 2. The peacocks 3. His meagre grasp of French

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These are simple, intuitive elements, many of which have direct corollaries in HTML

div: basic structural chunking, can nest recursively inside itself head p list, item name with type date with value emph and hi

Entity references and numeric character references
More detailed encoding

Chapter 1: The Manor House

Charles hadn't visited the manor house since Easter, 1955, and now he remembered why.

]]><said></said><said>hang it all!]]></said><said xml:lang="fr"></said><foreign xml:lang="fr"></foreign> The weather The peacocks His meagre grasp of French

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<div type="chapter">  <head>Chapter 1: The Manor House</head>  <epigraph>  <quote><p>Never a dull moment</p></quote>  <bibl>  <title>The Falconer</title>,  <author>Edgar Swiddlebaum</author>  </bibl>  </epigraph>  <p><name type="person">Charles</name> hadn't visited the manor  house since <date when="1955-04-10">Easter, 1955</date>,  and now he remembered why.</p>  <p><said>Hullo</said>, he called out as he walked up the drive, and  then, as if to himself, <said><quote>To be or not to be?</quote>,  to walk or not to walk…oh, <emph>hang</emph> it all!</said> His  meditation on <title>Hamlet</title> was interrupted as he  collided with a peacock. <said xml:lang="fr">Sacré bleu!</said> he  exclaimed with irritation, his <foreign  xml:lang="fr">sang-froid</foreign> completely deserting him.  It was going to be a long week. His catalog of irritations included: <list> <item n="1">The weather</item> <item n="2">The peacocks</item> <item n="3">His meagre grasp of French</item> </list> </p> </div>

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The bigger picture
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Summer school in MCMXC was never easy; it went by too quickly and left us wanting more.

But, as my friend Peter said with his inimitable je ne sais quoi, It never pays to think too hard. Or, as I would rather put it, Que sera, sera.

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School in winter was nearly insupportable...

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I say, Dinah, has anyone seen my gloves?

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No, miss, perhaps the parakeet has got them again?

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How lovely the oysters are this evening!

Yours very truly Maria ]]>