Roberto Rosselli Del Turco wrote:
Hi all, after much dealying I finally accepted the idea that I will need to use a customized version of the TEI DTD for my project(s): I read the guidelines, but would surely appreciate any further help, can anybody point me to tutorials, examples etc. on the web? Has anybody had any luck in using Roma? I couldn't save my modifications as a DTD, is it going to remain a schema-only tool?
Thanks in advance.
Ciao
Roma is currently under active development, and we hope to unveil a new and much improved version within a month or so; we are also actively trying to develop training material to accompany it (there's a very preliminary initial draft at http://www.tei-c.org/Drafts/edw88.xml)
The version of Roma online at http://www.tei-c.org/Roma should be reasonably stable however and I will do my best to sort out any problems that are reported using it.
Roma is very definitely intended to generate DTDs as well as schemas, and we have never suggested that it was a "schema-only" tool. However, there are (in the nature of things) some things which DTDs cannot do and schemas can, which in turn has led to some bugs in the DTD generation part of the current online version.
At present Roma's author, Sebastian Rahtz, is in a part of the world blessed with only sporadic email contact, which means that bugs don't get fixed quite as rapidly as they would if he were here, nor when fixed do they necessarily get propagated to the publicly accessible servers as rapidly as they would if I didn't have 99 other jobs to do as well.
Nevertheless, if you would like to send me a copy of the misbehaving ODD you mention, I'd be very glad to advise. Just make the modifications you want, and then press the Save button (rather than the Schema button): this will save your modification specification as an ODD in XML format. Send me that.
Lou Burnard