[tei-council] Proposal <idno> coverage -SF 2493417
Peter Boot
pboot at xs4all.nl
Thu Jan 22 15:57:24 EST 2009
Sebastian Rahtz schreef:
> because every bibliography I see has the same author several times,
> and I really don't want to have a repeated <idno> in several <author>
> elements. It's just Wrong.
>
> Similarly, I don't want to repeat the same info in every file. If
> an author has an openid, I want that recorded once, and referred
> to many times.
>
> just call me an old-fashioned database guy.
I won't call anyone old-fashioned. I used to be a database
administrator. I see what you mean. Repeating data is wrong, yes, but is
an openid data? It's really only a pointer to the data.
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