Andrew Kuchling has created Quotation
Exchange Language (QEL), for the encoding of quotation collections.
Kuchling has created a DTD for QEL, and also a set of tools for
processing QEL files. These tools include a Python library for QEL
processing, and two command line scripts: qtformat and qtgrep, for
formatting and searching QEL files. Kuchling warns that these tools are
in early stage (v0.0.1!) development.
A collection of quotations encoded in QEL is available from Kuchling's web site. Kuchling
writes:
[I] would like to convert some other
quotation collections into QEL format (preferably public domain
collections, or ones where the author grants me permission).
Suggestions for useful QEL content would be appreciated.