[tei-council] <date>, <distance>, and <measure>

Syd Bauman Syd_Bauman at Brown.edu
Sat Jan 20 07:51:25 EST 2007


> 1. If we are getting rid of the substructure of <date>, then we're
> getting rid of all of it, so it makes no difference whether you
> represent old <distance> by <distance> or <measure>, it's still
> dead. The <offset> element in particular really really has to go.

No, actually, <distance> and <offset> were not in the list of
elements to be nuked. (The reasoning was that they are used inside
<geogName>, too, I believe.)


> 2. As it happens, yes we do have a way of representing a choice of
> attributes in ODD. See
> http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/html/ref-attList.html.
> There is a (not very good) example at 27.3.3.3 and we use it on eg
> <gloss> and <relation>

Right, but IIRC Sebastian has pointed out that this mechanism can
only be used to alternate two attributes, not one attribute with a
group of others or two groups. I am not sure whether this restriction
existed only back then, exists currently, or will in perpetuity.




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