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- better interchange and integration of scholarly data
- support for all texts, in all languages, from all periods
- guidance for the perplexed: what to encode --- hence, a user-driven codification of existing best practice
- assistance for the specialist: how to encode --- hence, a loose framework into which unpredictable extensions can be fitted
These apparently incompatible goals result in a highly flexible, modular,
environment for DTD customization.
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