[tei-council] datatypes again: make data.key a URI
Lou Burnard
lou.burnard at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
Tue Nov 1 14:42:55 EST 2005
James Cummings wrote:
> Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>
>>> Isn't it at all likely that I'll want to apply both rather than have
>>> to choose between them?
>>
>>
>> what you're doing here is a grotesque abuse of xml:id! in your example
>> "someDocumentIDScheme" identifies this <rs>, not the "foo" thing.
>
>
> Ok... I must be being dense, I was assuming it was identifying the <rs>
> element, not the 'foo'.... can't I have a database key attached to
> something where I also want to have an ID of some sort on the element?
> Aren't these two completely different things?
>
This makes no sense. Have another murphys.
The <rs> can have an xml:id if you like. The <person> can too.
The purpose of the KEY attribute however is to say what <person>
corresponds to this <rs>. It can do that by pointing to the <person>s
ID, or by Some Other Means.
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