[tei-council] oversimplification: <measure> isn't measured

Lou Burnard lou.burnard at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
Fri Jul 20 12:34:36 EDT 2007


Syd Bauman wrote:
>
>  But my over-imaginative
> mind thinks that is not strict enough a condition for which to
> enforce this: what if you have a manuscript that actually has a blood
> pressure or a location in the sky (indicated with altitude and
> azimuth) in its incipit? Would it be reasonable to say within a
> <physDesc>?

Manuscripts do not have blood pressure, nor are they located in the sky 
(or at least, if they are, we don't catalogue them.)

I am sorry, but none of your arguments convinces me Syd. You are trying 
to complexify a very simple requirement quite needlessly.



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