[tei-council] TEI Numbered Divs Survey: The Results.

[Christian Wittern]

James, Arianna,

Thanks for suggesting the survey and shepherding it along.  This 
provides and excellent base for our decision.

As I was foolish enough to indicate my expectations before, I am pleased 
to see them met here:-)  So basically, I think we should go along with 
James recommendations.

The only thing that worries me a bit is this:

Sebastian Rahtz wrote:

> comment #27 was mildly interesting, because it is a bit like
> the way the TEI Guidelines themselves are marked up
> (on which subject I bent Lou's ear on Friday, arguing the
> Guidelines are unnecessarily complex in this respect).
> 

The comment is

<quote>
We start with *div1* in almost all cases, but use *div0* where there is 
some extraordinary high-level division of a text (say, division of a 
work into "book 1" and "book 2"). That way, our navigation structure can 
continue to rely on *div1* for user display, but we can still accurately 
reflect the true structure of
the work.
</quote>

If I understand things right, we would not be able to use <div> above 
<div1> to accomodate this use case?
We should also make it clear that this was one of the reasons to *not* 
use numbered divs in the first case.

(What do you intend to do with the Guidelines themselves?  Continue with 
numbered divs or ditching them?)

best, chw


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  Christian Wittern
  Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
  47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN