[tei-council] and another thing

[Lou Burnard]

Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> Lou Burnard wrote:
>> Within the body of XML examples, we sometimes find ampersands. These 
>> are variously represented in the current source as
>>
>> &
>> &
>> &
>>
>> My belief is that only the second is correct: we do not want people 
>> to run away with the idea that it's OK to type an unadorned ampersand 
>> into their XML source.
>>   
>
> the third cannot be the case; it would be an error.
>
> this is interesting. do we want the _source_ of the example to be what 
> they copy,
> or the _rendition_ of the example? I don't like the idea of polluting 
> the source with
> &.
>
> I think the formatting of the examples should trap this and replace 
> & with &
>
well, I don't mind which of the first two is adopted, but it ought to be 
consistent, which it currently isn't. (but shortly will be)