[tei-council] repetition in the description of @place

Lou Burnard lou.burnard at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Fri Jan 16 05:42:41 EST 2009


Sebastian Rahtz wrote:

> 
> You are implying to Dot on TEI-L that you want to change
> the datatype to permit multiple values. That seems a bit worrying to
> me: it looks odd to say that something can have two places,
> and it affects people whose tools assume that there is only
> one value for the attribute. I'd have thought this is going beyond
> corrigle error?
> 

Hm, fair point. The original version had "mixed" for the case where 
something was in more than one place (e.g. in the margin and straying 
onto the facing page). Maybe I should reinstate that. But Dot's question 
was (in part) "so how do I say which places if it is mixed?" We could 
say that you have to say something like "left+facing" (i.e. make up your 
own syntax) I suppose, but why not use the syntax XML already gives us?






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