[tei-council] the "key" attribute

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Arianna Ciula wrote:
> I think this is quite a complex issue to tackle since the use of 
> implicit @key to refer to something else implies some sort of 
> user-defined method to transform it into a real reference but at the 
> same time requires the guidelines to be more explicit in suggested 
> practices (e.g. use the TEI header, store your more explicit paths 
> somewhere, create a TEI authority list of people/places).
you mean that in general show people better how to use @ref instead of @key?
> i.e. for references that don't have necessarily the format of a 
> pointer....but more to be done on the names and dates chapter to show 
> how @key can be REALLY used.
can you expand? in general, we discourage use of @key, don't we?

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