[tei-council] Further update on PH

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Lou Burnard wrote:
>
> as do I. An even shorter cut would be to permit @graphic or @url on 
> <surface> of course.
no, please don't.  lets keep graphics inclusion simple.
>
>>
>> then replace the @box with @url, @ury, @llx and @lly, and then these
>> can default to 0, 0, $xMax and $yMax if not otherwise specified.
>
> You can't be serious about the name "@url" At least I hope not.
oh, yes, I meant @urx
>
> I assume the intention is to replace the @box by up to 4 attribs on 
> each <zone>? And the argument for doing this is that you can then save 
> time by having defaults for most of them? But isn't it just as likely 
> as not that you will always need to supply all four anyway? zones are 
> quite unlikely to be so regular, it seems to me.
true. the better arguments in favour of it are that a) it means better 
data checking, and b) easier to
parse (look at Conal's XSL to parse @box....). Yes its verbose but we 
all agree that
humans don't write this stuff.

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