[tei-council] first draft of minutes of 2005-04-28/29 meeting available

[Lou Burnard]

On 5 May 2005, at 18:59, Julia Flanders wrote:

> The point on tei.numeric that I remember was that we were going to 
> consider whether we needed a TEI data type that could accommodate more 
> specific kinds of numeric data....? I remember Laurent suggesting a 
> tei.formula (or something to that effect), which could be what this is 
> gesturing towards.
>
> EDW86 seems to be malformed and can't be read at the moment, so I 
> can't jog my memory by looking at the list of proposed datatypes.
>

Aaargh! Thanks for pointing this out -- I have now fixed the stupid 
tagging error.

Here's the text I added to edw86  which I think expresses what we were 
discussing:

The suggested tei.numeric is a deliberately vague general class, 
intended to encompass a number of more precise datatypes (analogous 
therefore to tei.tempexp). For example, we might want to restrict some 
attribute values to a quantity which might be represented either as a 
real number in the range 0 to 1 or as a percentage; in other cases, it 
might make no sense to have any non-integral value, or to permit a 
negative value. We have nothing analogous to the valList to express 
these constraints on numeric values.

Lou "thumbs" Burnard


> best, Julia
>
>> tei.numeric ? missed something here?
>>
>> as I don't remember what it was that was being discussed at this 
>> point. Unless anyone else can remember, I suggest you should delete 
>> this from the record!
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