[tei-council] datatypes: outstanding questions

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Lou Burnard wrote:

>
> w at lemma:
>  Syd suggests this should be a child element which is not
> unreasonable: if it remains an
>  attribute, I think it should be tei.data.name

I'm with Syd on that, at first sight

>
> arc at label2:
> .....
>   Syd marks all these as "NaAA" : but they are still all there and
>   need to be fixed if we want to retain this module

why would these stop being attributes? they look like simple tokens mostly

>
> orgDivn at reg:
> orgName at reg:
> orgTitle at reg:
> orgType at reg:
>   Likewise, marked as NaAA : need to be fixed

to non-attributes, yes

>
> schemaSpec at namespace:
> elementSpec at ns:
>   Syd proposes xsd:anyURI : but is a namespace
>   necessarily a URI (and if it is, why not use
>   tei.data.pointer). suggest (new) tei.data.namespace mapping to ?

I now believe namespaces are URI, so believe in pointer

>
> metSym at terminal:
> numeric at trunc:
> binary at value:
>   Syd suggests  xsd:boolean for these: I think they should all be
>   tei.data.truthValue (which should map to xsd:boolean; cases where
> truthValue permits "unknown" shd be given     different datatype)

yes, agreed. call the extended one "tei.data.Philosophical"

> handDesc at hands:
>   xsd:nonNegativeInteger | "many" : rationalise to tei.data.count and
>   remove "many" option.

nah, extend it to also allow "not many", "quite a few", "a reasonable
amount", "not many at all", "god knows", "really quite a decent number". etc

in other cases I either agree with Lou or concur that I dont know what to do


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