[tei-council] Re: choice

[Christian Wittern]

Lou Burnard <lou.burnard at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> writes:

> Christian Wittern wrote:
>
>
>> Which brings me to the question:  What is the status of <choice>?
>> 
>
> A good question!  Here's my attempt at an answer. Anyone interested in 
> the history of the discussion can of course read it by going to the 
> tei-choice list archive, readily accessible from the tei sourceforge 
> site (go to http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=41178) 
> The most recent posting was a useful summary of various possible 
> approaches to an implementation which Syd produced in September. For 
> those who don't want to wade through the sourceforge archive, I've also 
> placed this on the TEI website at 
> http://www.tei-c.org/Drafts/Choice/summary.txt

Thank you.  I spend a few hours on that sf archive in early September
and did not want to repeat that experience...


>
> So, my view now (which I will also post to the TEI-choice list for 
> comment) is that we ought to allow for 2 or more elements from the 
> "tei.choosable" class inside <choice> and leave it at that. The members 
> of that class are up for grabs, but my current preferred list would be
> <sic>, <corr>, <reg>, <seg>, and <unclear> only. Oh, and <choice>, of 
> course.
>
...
> <choice>
>   <sic>1<add>st</add></sic>
>   <reg>first</reg>
> </choice>
>
> For a given application, of course, people may well want to constrain 
> the choosable elements, or add others to them. But the basic 
> out-of-the-box element, I suggest, need not be any more complex than this.

Looks good to me.  I assume that choice can have more than 2 direct
children.  I wonder however, how would an encoder specify paths
through these choices -- this seems to be especially a problem for
children that do not carry semantic bagagge, like <seg>.  Can we say
something about how we use them in the header?


All the best,

Christian

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 Christian Wittern 
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