LMNL tagging permits overlap; accordingly, models using LMNL as a basis can describe multiple concurring hierarchies (MCH). While LMNL ranges do not make hierarchies, they can be mapped straightforwardly to structures that do, including XML.

Equally, since no hierarchies are imposed, LMNL documents and document processing can be tolerant, in ways XML cannot, of inconsistent and experimental tagging, while also being subject to querying, testing and validation whenever appropriate and helpful. Hierarchy is apparent, but not inevitable – in other words, it becomes significant, among and with other patterns and regularities.

This makes LMNL an attractive vehicle for exploratory markup, that is, markup prior to the definition of a formal model and in preparation for it: tagging for discovery.

This project presents a version of Homer's Iliad provided with LMNL markup in an open source repository built using public datasets (PerseusDL) and open-stack XML-based tools (XProc, iXML, XSLT). Data description is declarative and informed by TEI (among others), but free-form and heterogeneous, so its regularities emerge from the text.

Projects to be presented:

https://github.com/wendellpiez/Laminator/
https://github.com/wendellpiez/EpicMarkup/