[tei-council] date-stamping <desc>

Lou's Laptop lou.burnard at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
Wed Oct 11 05:11:32 EDT 2006


Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> James Cummings wrote:
>>  Is there anything
>> stopping us having multiple desc elements for the original language, 
>> and then
>> only displaying the one with the highest version number?  
> the logic which works out which <desc> to display
> at any given time could be adjusted cope with this,
> yes, and the markup would be legal.
>
> But I do think you're getting the problem out
> of proportion. We're just not getting these constant
> revisions and translations...
>
So what's the resolution? <desc> gets a @version attribute? the value of 
which is likely to look like a canonical date but need not?

What about <exemplum>s?







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