[tei-council] persName question

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Whatever else you do don't abuse semantics....

The "mark it simply and canonicalize it later" is OK, but
you'd still want to use a new namespaced attribute,
I reckon, for sanity.

What about two other cases:

a)
   <persName>John Smith</persName>

where we are not sure _which_  John it is (we
know of three). In this case <persName ref="#smith1 #smith2">
would have a different meaning (ie alternation rather than
a list)

b)
<persName ref="wikipedia.org#smith www.bbc.co.uk/people/smith">
where there are two useful and distinct pointers to the same person.

So does a multiple @ref mean

  #1, #2
  #1 | #2
  #1 & #2
?

how would  we distinguish?

You _could_ organize your family into

   <listPerson xml:id="Simpsons">
      <listPerson xml:id="ParentSimpsons">
          <person xml:id="Home">...</person>
          <person xml:id="Marge">...</person>
       </listPerson>
      </listPerson xml:id="BabySimpsons">    
         <person xml:id="Maggie">...</person>
      </listPerson>
  </listPerson>

what would be the problem with that?
the fact that Marge would also occur
in the Bouvier family?

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