[tei-council] @key and @ref: recap ok?

[Lou Burnard]

Arianna Ciula wrote:
>
> 
> Lou's Laptop wrote:
> The
>> <att>ref</att> attribute should be used wherever it is possible to supply
>> a direct link such as a URI to indicate the location of canonical
>> information about the referent. For example:
>> <egXML xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/Examples">That silly man
>> <name ref="#DPB1" type="person">David Paul Brown</name> has suffered 
>> ...</egXML>
>> This encoding requires that there exist somewhere in the same document
>> a <gi>person</gi> element with the identifier <code>DBP1</code>, which
>> will contain canonical information about this particular person,
>> marked up using the elements discussed in <ptr target="#NDPERS"/>
>> below. The same element might alternatively be provided by some other 
>> document,
>> of course,...
> 
> May be I am reading too much here, but it seems that this second option 
>  (i.e. having your list of persons/places, for instance, in another TEI 
> document) as it is written in this prose is less preferred, while I 
> think it will be the most used/useful especially for those projects that 
> have a gazetteer or a substantial set of persons.


"alternatively" certainly isn't meant to imply "second best", as the "of 
course" is meant to show. But if it doesn't work, I'll try to improve 
the wording.

















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