[tei-council] datatype issues (part 1)

[Perry Willett]

I'm all for following the ISO standards on this too. People
will get used to the values fairly quickly as they use them.

Perry Willett
University of Michigan
pwillett at umich.edu


On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, James Cummings wrote:

> Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>> Lou Burnard wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> My argument is that iff we are going to go to the trouble of
>>> normalising attribute values, and there is a pre-existing
>>> international norm, then we really have to have much better reasons
>>> not to follow it than to say "it's not intuitive".
>> 
>> my sentiments exactly.....
>
> Yup.  I'm convinced.  Ok, so we have sex="1" and value="P36Y"?  I don't mind 
> having a local modification have male/female/unknown and transform it to 
> 1/2/0 if I ever encounter it as a problem.  The benefit of having attribute 
> values being international standards does seem to outweigh any other benefit 
> of knowing at a glance what that value means.  I'm assuming that when 
> slightly cryptic ISO standards like this are use for attribute values that 
> there will be a (simplified) discussion of it in the guidelines and perhaps a 
> pointer to further information on it?
>
> -James
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