[tei-council] Further update on PH

[Lou Burnard]

Syd Bauman wrote:
>  I note that <geo> is underspecified: users are left to
> their own devices as to the syntax of the content. (See footnote to
> http://lists.village.virginia.edu/pipermail/tei-council/2007/007937.html.)
>   
It says in the spec for <geo>:
> "All uses of geo <http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/P5/Guidelines-web/en/html/ref-geo.html> within a document are required to use
>     the same coordinate system, which is that defined by a
>     geoDecl <http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/P5/Guidelines-web/en/html/ref-geoDecl.html> element supplied in the TEI Header. If no such
>     element is supplied, the assumption is that the content of each
>     geo <http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/P5/Guidelines-web/en/html/ref-geo.html> element will be a pair of numbers to be interpreted
>     as latitude followed by longitude according to the World Geodetic
>     System."
>   
It seems a little misleading to describe this as "underspecified".

It ought to say something like "within the section of the parent 
declaring element" rather than "within a document" though, I suppose, 
since geoDecl is declarable.