[tei-council] NH revised

[Lou Burnard]

Syd Bauman wrote:
>
> HORSE deliberately tackles this head-on by claiming that the
> semantics of an X tag change from X-start or X-end tag to being an
> X-start or X-end segment boundary delimiter element as soon as it has
> an sID= or eID= attribute, respectively.
>
> Thus the semantics are clear: <quote/> means a quotation of nothing
> or silence; <quote sID='a'/> means a quotation of here to wherever
> <quote eID='a'/> sits.
>
>   

So, the semantics and expected content of an element can be changed just 
by the attributes it bears?

I find that a leetle hard to swallow, frankly.

There is just one tiny precedent though: the <shift> element marks the 
start of something (a segment boundary in fact) when its @new attribute 
is specified, and the end of something when it isn't. But its content is 
always the same.