[tei-council] Assessment of Example infrastructure

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Sun Feb 11 18:44:46 EST 2007


> A similar mechanism could be adopted for examples, which would be the
> easiest solution, that is using @xml:lang on egXML.
>   
or some type attribute on <exemplum>. <egXML> is always inside
<exemplum>.
> A drawback of the current setup (not limited to I18N) is that there is a
> 1:1 relationship between example and exemplified feature.  This means
> that if one and the same example could be used to illustrate multiple
> elements, it has to be repeated.  A possible solution would be to store
> the examples elsewhere and indicate the identity of the thing
> illustrated by a @targets element, which should then point to the @ident
> value of the thing illustrated.  This would require a reshuffling of
> bytes in the sourcetree, which if necessary should be undertaken rather
> soon.
>   
<exemplum> can be empty, and could use one of the global attributes
(is it @corresp? sorry, its late, am just off to bed) to indicate that
another
example (identified by ID) is equally good here.

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