[tei-council] Guidelines description of <fw>

[Dot Porter]

Hi Council,

I had an interesting query from a colleague today regarding the
element forme work (<fw>), described in section 11.7 of the Guidelines
(http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/PH.html#PHSK).
Basically, he was concerned about the content of <fw> being included
as content of the <fw>'s parent div (which he didn't want). He
actually wanted to wrap <fw> inside a <milestone>. I explained that
since <fw> is a member of model.milestoneLike, this isn't a problem -
the content of <fw> is information about the document's reference
system and is thus not considered content of the <div> (although it's
his responsibility to process this correctly).

Anyway, he came back and said fine, this makes sense, but that the
guidelines weren't clear on that point. And indeed they're not.
Section 11.7 does compare <fw> with <pb/>, but doesn't expressly state
that the content of <fw> isn't actually considered to be content of
the parent <div> (as the content of a <damage> or <add> tag inside
that same <div> would be). On his behalf (and on the behalf of other
potentially confused <fw> users) I'd like to request that the next
version of the Guidelines (whenever they may appear) include a
sentence or two in the <fw> description to make this really clear.

And of course if I've misinterpreted the Guidelines (wouldn't be the
first time), please correct me.

Thanks,
Dot

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