[tei-council] comments on edw90

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Syd Bauman wrote:

><person age="#middle-aged">
><!-- elsewhere, very likely in <teiHeader> of same doc ... -->
><codeGrp gis="person personGrp" attr="age">
>  <codeDef xml:id="infant">birth to 1 year</codeDef>
>  <codeDef xml:id="child">1 to 8 years</codeDef>
>  <codeDef xml:id="teen">9 to 19 years</codeDef>
>  <codeDef xml:id="young-adult">20 to 30 years</codeDef>
>  <codeDef xml:id="yuppie">30-39 years</codeDef>
>  <codeDef xml:id="middle-aged">Generally 40-65, but post-menopausal
>                                women are in a separate
>                                category</codeDef>
>  <!-- ... -->
></codeGrp>
>  
>
haven't you just reinvented <classDecl>? in one of my files I
see

<taxonomy xml:id="Zone">
<category xml:id="z_A"><catDesc>Parte Antica</catDesc></category>
<category xml:id="z_V"><catDesc>Zona Vecchia</catDesc></category>
<category xml:id="z_P"><catDesc>Zona Prima</catDesc></category>
<category xml:id="z_S"><catDesc>Zona Seconda</catDesc></category>
<category xml:id="z_T"><catDesc>Zona Terza</catDesc></category>
    </taxonomy>

which surely has the same effect? tying the code table to the
element name and attribute seems a mildly clumsy way of doing it.

sebastian