[tei-council] on regularizing names

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Christian Wittern wrote:
>
>  However, in
> the above example, me thinks, it should be
> <name reg="#JAMES"> or some such, not @key which we already defined as
>
> "key	provides a means of locating a full definition for the entity being named such as a database record key or URI."
>
> thus referring to the "entity being named".
>   
Why can't the name "James" be a first class entity? @key might
point to record 4567 in The Big Book Of Names, for example.


-- 
Sebastian Rahtz      

Information Manager, Oxford University Computing Services
13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Phone +44 1865 283431

OSS Watch: JISC Open Source Advisory Service
http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk