[tei-council] Fwd: grouping elements under <choice>

[Peter Boot]

I would think it is an important issue. But it also has wide-reaching 
implications. Piotr asks for a way to represent multiple analyses of his 
text. But a next case would obviously be to represent multiple 
transcriptions, in case of doubt. And then the next option would to 
store a text and its translation under choice. etc. But where does it end?

If we're going to do something about this I would think it needs a small 
working group to sort the issue out.

(And if you already had a fight over this, why start it anew?)

Peter

Laurent Romary schreef:
> Hallo Council,
> This issue is something that has bothered me since quite a while with  
> somehow having the same kind of proposal in mind. Is this an issue on  
> which the council would have some strong feelings (for or against)?  
> Could/should it be put on our working agenda?
> Cheers,
> Laurent
> 
> Début du message réexpédié :
> 
>> De : Piotr Bański <bansp at O2.PL>
>> Date : 15 décembre 2008 23:28:10 GMT+01:00
>> À : TEI-L at listserv.brown.edu
>> Objet : grouping elements under <choice>
>> Répondre à : Piotr Bański <bansp at O2.PL>
>>
>> It seems to me that the <choice> element is only able to provide
>> alternatives between atoms, and that it lacks a bracket-like child,
>> something like <group> in RNG and a few other places.
>>
>> I'd like to mark up a choice between two alternative segmentations:
>>
>> either:   <seg/>
>> or:       <seg/><seg/>
>>
>> and there appears to be no easy way of expressing this.
>>
>> I'd like to have:
>>
>> <choice>
>>   <seg/>
>>   <group>
>>      <seg/>
>>      <seg/>
>>   </group>
>> </choice>
>>
>> but I can't. I can use a kludge and wrap the two segments into another
>> <seg/> rather than <group/>, but that would be claiming that the two
>> segments form a unit -- that, however, is not the case here.
>>
>> Consider a sequence such as "2.". In Polish orthography, it can mean
>> either "the 2nd" (<seg>2.</seg>) or it can be the number "2" standing
>> right before the end of the sentence (<seg>2</seg><seg>.</seg>). I  
>> don't
>> want to claim that in the latter case, I am dealing with a single
>> "super-segment" that happens to contain <seg>2</seg> and <seg>.</ 
>> seg> --
>> they are not a super-segment, they are a sequence of two segments.
>>
>> There are other examples that involve morphemes, and it seems to me  
>> that
>> a similar need must pop up in the case of other element sequences as
>> well -- it feels rather generic.
>>
>> Is there any clean way to capture such alternatives, or may this  
>> perhaps
>> qualify as a feature request?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>  Piotr
> 
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