[tei-council] [Fwd: Re: 'token' classes]

[Laurent Romary]

As usual, Lou expresses my view better than I do myself...
I agree,
Laurent

Le 18 oct. 05 à 11:39, Lou Burnard a écrit :

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> Subject: Re: 'token' classes
> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 10:38:09 +0100
> From: Lou Burnard <lou.burnard at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
> To: Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz at oucs.ox.ac.uk>
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> Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
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>> Laurent Romary wrote:
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>>> What we want (maybe...) is to consider that the type attribute  
>>> contains a code or identifier (not necessarily in the sense of  
>>> xml) that is related to a predefined classification of a given  
>>> object. We should state that strongly somewhere so that it gives  
>>> encoders the instruction to actually +think+ of the general  
>>> picture in which a given value for type will be considered.  
>>> Typically, the possible types of division in a corpus (<div>) the  
>>> various grammatical features he wants to use in a dictionary  
>>> (<gram>) etc.
>>>
>>>
>> This is fine, but why do you consider that a code or identier has no
>> spaces? my identifer is "Sebastian Rahtz", not some
>> artificial construction like "Sebastian_Rahtz".
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> Au contraire, your name may well be "Sebastian Rahtz" (and tagged as
> such by <name>) but your identification is precisely likely to be an
> artificial construction of some kind. Suince it's artificial we can
> plausibbly make up rules about whether or not it has spaces.
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> That said, I think this discussion gas led to me finally understanding
> why W3C use the word "token" the way they do == and seeing it as not
> implausible.
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