[tei-council] Draft reply to John Smith

[Christian Wittern]

Dear Council members,

several days have passed without a comment on this draft, so I assume
it is endorsed and will send it to John as is.

All the best,

Christian

Christian Wittern <wittern at kanji.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp> writes:

> Dear Council members,
>
> As promised, here is the draft of my reply to John Smith and the
> Sanskrit taskforce.  Any comments welcome.
>
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> Dear John,
>
> At its recent telephone conference, the TEI Council discussed the
> proposal you submitted on behalf of the Sanskrit taskforce and I would
> like to inform you now of the results.
>
> The TEI Council welcomed the submission and would like to thank you
> and your collaborators for your work at enhancing the TEI
> applicability to Sanskrit and other languages that require complex
> analytical encoding.  
>
> The TEI Council agreed that the proposed form could be used to encode
> this forms for data interchange and that it should be used in the next
> version of the Guidelines to illustrate the use the intended
> linguistic analysis, as well as the use of <seg> within <choice>.  
>
> The ensuing discussion centered around how the constraints on the use
> of attribute values, that are implicit or in the text of your proposal
> could be formalized using a schema language.  Several possibilities
> were proposed, but none of them could be immediately agreed on.  As it
> turned out, validation in a very rigid form for a case like this will
> require the TEI to review the procedures within the overall framework
> of the TEI.  
>
> The last issue, which basically means that no immediate, automatic
> validation through a xml parser is available, should be a minor
> concern to your group, I think, since the software you are developping
> will act as some kind of special-purpose-validator, as its function
> will depend on the correct application of the markup.  If that does
> not sound feasible, a Schematron rule could be used to validate the
> markup.
>
> While the validation procedure is still pending, the TEI Council
> thinks the markup as suggested is useful and appropriate and would
> like to encourage you to implement it as it stands.
>
>
> All the best,
>
> Christian Wittern 
>
> Chair, TEI Technical Council
>
>
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>
>
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>
>  Christian Wittern 
>  Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
>  47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN
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 Christian Wittern 
 Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
 47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN