[tei-council] datatype of @n in att.global

Conal Tuohy conal.tuohy at vuw.ac.nz
Thu Jun 28 18:29:31 EDT 2007


On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 16:53 +0100, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> I have been caught out a lot of times today by the fact that
> the value of  "n" is constrained so that it cannot contain spaces.
> Given that it "gives a number (or other label) for an element, which is
> not necessarily unique within the document", I think
> this is unreasonable. One can easily imagine
> labels such as "45 (3)" , "Documents and Settings/foo.xml"
> or "No. 6" (as in "come in No. 6, your time is up".
> 
> I humbly petition the court that space be allowed
> in att.global/@n

I vote yes



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