Fwd: [tei-council] regularizing names

[Syd Bauman]

JW> And perhaps the guidelines should also discuss the option of
JW> pointing to an external file dedicated to name regularizations.
JW> For instance, if my project consists of hundreds of commentaries
JW> on Romantic poetry, I don't need to repeat <regName
JW> authority="LCNAF" id="byron" >Byron, George Gordon Byron,
JW> Baron</regName> in every document. Rather, I could do something
JW> like this: "...the dastardly and poisonous malignity of <persName
JW> reg="myRegNames.xml#byron">Byron's</persName> most foul and
JW> treacherous libel...," pointing to a master myRegNames.xml file.

One teeny additional point to consider, is that (as currently
concieved) this would require changing the datatype of reg= from
tei.data.code (points internally) to tei.data.key (points anywhere).

Which may mean we should reconsider whether or not reg= should be
tei.data.code.