[tei-council] Re: Personography discussion

[James Cummings]

Syd Bauman wrote:
>>Am I being stupid or is it just the purpose of the W3C xml:base
>>attribute? We could integrate it into P5, couldn't we? 
> 
> 
> Well, xml:base= is somewhat helpful, but doesn't really solve the
> problem, as it applies to *all* pointer attributes.
> 
>   <p xml:base="long://initial.url.path/here/">
>     I would like to say that <name key="#LR">Laurent</name> is
>     a great guy. Proof can be found
>     <ref target="worse://super.long.url/path/here.xml">here</ref>
>   </p>
> 
> What we'd really like is a way of saying "this is the base URI for
> all key= attributes, but not others".

Is the only way to have all key attributes _be understood to_ point to a
specific place in the header, and that place have an xml:base ?  Would that
actually work?  (And then how does one do this if we want to have keys in
multiple external sources?, etc.)

Is there a RelaxNG way to validate such a thing?

I agree that this definitely needs more thought.  However, if a general solution
is found, it could apply to a lot more than the personographies, couldn't it?

-James