[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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