If you dont have an image you shouldn't be using <facsimile> in my view. I
wondered whether the generality of the word "surface" was going to cause
problems, and the subsequent messages on this thread confirm it.

a <facsimile> is an object composed of *images*, NOT data about images (that
belongs in the header), NOT data about objects (we mostly don't have a home for
that). A <surface> contains data about an *image of a surface*, NOT data about
the original surface. 

This is meant to be a simple well-defined solution to a known problem, not a
general catch all.


In message <46D20649.1090901@oucs.ox.ac.uk> Sebastian Rahtz
<sebastian.rahtz@oucs.ox.ac.uk> writes:
> staring at the correspondence, I tried to make sense of it by converting
> some of my own work.  I find a situation where I have a record of
> a facsimile, but not an image of it.  That is to say, I know the
> catalogue number of the photograph, but don't have a JPEG.
> 
> Do people think I should be using some other markup
> entirely, or using <facsimile> in some way? I know msdesc
> has its <surrogates>, but as usual that's so bound up in
> over-specific manuscript language I want to steer clear of it....
> 
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