[tei-council] datatypes: outstanding questions

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Syd Bauman wrote:

>>why would these stop being attributes? they look like simple tokens
>>mostly
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>Because they might have characters outside of Unicode or be in a
>language other than the element on which they are specified (or would
>be a child).
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I think I must be misunderstanding those elements....

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>>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
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>Hmmm...
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I was joking, by the way :-}

I dont know wjat, but I cannot believe it is sensible to
have an apparent numeric attribute with an alternative of
"well, some, dont know how many"

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