[tei-council] xml-colon-thing

[Sebastian Rahtz]

By the way, the current SOW=09 says, in aside sort of way:

"In the current draft of P5, all addresses refer by means of XML IDs, 
making the processing of a single chapter at a time difficult. To make 
chapter-by chapter processing of the Guidelines easy, current IDREFs to 
a chapter of the Guidelines like the chapter on linking, referred to as 
SA, would be modified if they appeared in another file of the 
guidelines, so that:

<p>In section <ptr target="COXR"/> we introduced the simplest 
  pointer elements, <gi>ptr</gi> and <gi>ref</gi>. 

would be replaced by a reference such as

<p>In section <ptr target="../CO/co.odd#COXR"/> we introduced the simplest 
  pointer elements, <gi>ptr</gi> and <gi>ref</gi>."


This rather horrifies me, as it implies that the separate chapters are 
always
separate documents, which will be presented separately. Either the 
Guidelines
are a single document, or they are not. Whether you can process a chapter
by itself for proofing purposes is a matter of internal hackery....

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