[tei-council] recording application information in the teiHeader

[Dan O'Donnell]

On Sun, 2007-18-02 at 23:46 +0000, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> Lou Burnard wrote:
> >
> > 2. As a tool developer I can report that xaira certainly needs a place 
> > in the header to store quite a lot of data: much more than this 
> > proposal would  permit (and with a more complex structure) in fact.  
> > Xaira addresses the need by defining its own additional "XairaDesc" 
> > element (if I were doing this properly it wd be in its own namespace) 
> > and adding same to the encodingDesc, which works just fine. In an 
> > earlier version, xaira also updated the revisionDesc everytime it ran: 
> > however this rapidly became so annoying I took it out again.
> >
> OK, having also immediately heard from Peter Boot and Dot, the case is 
> probably there for it to
> exist. The choice is between:  a simple extensible mechanism which needs 
> careful definition
> to let Lou use it;  and a technique recommendation which says "define 
> your own vocabulary
> in your own namespace". 
> 
> This business of "when to namespace and when not to namespace" keeps 
> coming back
> to haunt us...
> 
> I'll let this stew a bit on TEI-L, and then make you a proposal.
> 
> Incidentally, perhaps I am over-influenced by my work for the W3C, but I 
> like
> the separation there between the standard, and the "best practices"
> document to go with it. I suppose it is heresy to say that we could do 
> with that too?

Doesn't that keep coming back as well? I think this is probably a post
partum desideratum--though obviously we think about best practice as we
discuss the final spec all the time. I.e. not quite 1.1 but post 1.0.
Perhaps a separate project?

> 
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