[tei-council] comments on edw90

Lou Burnard lou.burnard at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
Fri Sep 23 04:46:31 EDT 2005


Yes, there are several re-inventions of this kind throughout the header, 
which would benefit from integration.

Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> 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
> 
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