[tei-council] reviewing SA again;what is standoff?

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Wed Oct 11 07:06:02 EDT 2006


Syd Bauman wrote:
>  In the meantime, keep
> in mind that the mechanism described in 14.9 is explicitly intended
> for situations like the need to mark up R/O data and handling
> multiple hierarchies. To my (limited) knowledge this kind of
> stand-off markup is what is always used for these purposes.
OK; but the examples in 14.9 just look so artificial.
Pulling in each line of the poem text using an xpointer range
- would anyone _really_ ever do that? Can you
come up with a worked-out multiple-hierarchy example instead?

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