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From: "Robert J. Chassell" <bob@RATTLESNAKE.COM>
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The Draft dictionary, 

01436 Lojban gismu list 9/26/94 01436 Draft dictionary

implicitly provides a dictionary spec for input, with output depending
on your output format.

As I understood it at the time, the input spec was:

English meaning [mandatory]

explication [optional]

place structure [mandatory]

comment [optional]

rafsi [optional]

gismu [mandatory]

This input spec enabled me to write a function that produced this
output, automatically from the draft dictionary file:

*hazard (shallow water hazard), 
x1 is a shoal [shallow hazard]/reef of material x2 in body of water x3 
/:/ [rapids (= ri'erjmifa, ri'ercaxno)]
/=/ jmifa

A similar output spec could produce:

<english_meaning>
hazard 
</english_meaning>

<explication>
shallow water hazard
</explication>

<place_structure>
x1 is a shoal [shallow hazard]/reef of material x2 in body of water x3 
</place_structure>

<comment>
rapids (= ri'erjmifa, ri'ercaxno)
</comment>

<rafsi>
[none]
</rafsi>

<gismu>
jmifa
</gismu>


An entry following either output spec could be converted back to an
entry in the original input format.

-- 
Robert J. Chassell bob@rattlesnake.com
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