[tei-council] Re: on spec grp 2, datatypes normalized

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Syd Bauman wrote:

>Yes, but not at the expense of not being able to represent humanities
>data.
>
i know its just political correctness, but can we remember
_not_ to shepherd the TEI into a "humanities" ghetto?
The TEI is about _text_, which is of interest in many disciplines.

> Besides, keep in mind that (at least for RelaxNG) all a datatype
>does is, given a certain string, say "yes, this is" or "no, this is
>not" a valid instance of me. It doesn't return a normalized or
>regularized or canonical value or anything like that.
>  
>
but do bear in mind that this _isn't_ true for W3C Schema
and the PSVI.

you may one day wish to do a proper sort of TEI-encoded
elements according to their date. If they emerge into the PSVI
as having matched a regexp, you'll be at a disadvantage.

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