TEI
DocBook is intended for technical documentation, so it’s missing quite a few features I’m looking for in a fanfic management system. Specifically, it doesn’t handle verse and drama, though they’re essential for songfic, filk and screenplays.
Fortunately, there’s the Text Encoding Initiative, the somewhat dusty academic standard for marking up classic texts. Here are a few links:
- The Text Encoding Initiative website
- The XML version of TEI
- The TEI pizza chef for cooking up your own TEI DTD
- A TEI Technology Report with links, and Academic TEI applications, both from xmlcoverpages.org
- The TEI tutorial at the HTML Writer’s Guild - teixlite is one of the DTD’s they use for Project Gutenberg