[tei-council] recording application information in the teiHeader

[Dan O'Donnell]

We've been coming up on this idea of multiple namespaces a lot as well.
Was James C not dealing with this question as part of the conformance
proposals?

I'm happy with Sebastian's proposal for a method of working, but I'm
wondering if what we aren't talking about here is not something that
should be cast off as a separate namespace question--each tool will
presumably have a number of different things it wants to say about
itself and it seems to me to be a mugs game to predict them.

-dan

On Sun, 2007-18-02 at 23:12 +0000, Lou Burnard wrote:
> 1. I certainly dont think it needs a new module
> 
> 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.
> 
> So on balance,
> 
> 3. I am unconvinced that this proposal is sufficiently general or 
> powerful as yet
> 
> Lou
> 
> 
> Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> > cf my post to TEI-L
> >
> > If I get no serious responses, I incline towards saying
> > to Martin "thanks but no thanks".
> >
> > If there _are_ positive responses, I will propose that we put
> > it straight in the header, and not bother with an
> > extra module. In that case, I will take it as an
> > action to finish drafting the new elements with Martin
> > for review by Berlin.
> >
> > Obviously, this depends on y'll approving that
> > plan of campaign. I will take silence as assent :-}
> >
> 
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