Thread: Proposal: Extending Epub with reference book tags
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Old 05-27-2009, 11:40 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by jgray View Post
I wasn't saying that the MS tags should be used specifically. However, since MS based their tags on TEI, I was wondering if IDPF couldn't do the same? If not TEI, then some other existing standard. Since epub is already based on existing standards, this would make more sense than starting from scratch for dictionary support.
A question occurred to me today that needs to be asked before going further. Given that TEI tags existed long before the Epub spec was finalized, why wasn't it included as a related standard? At the very least, why wasn't a subset of tags included in a manner similar to the preferred HTML vocabulary?

I wonder if there was a good reason for not using an existing standard. We may find out.
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