[tei-council] 2046508 (introduce new <listEvent> element) -- done, I think

Lou Burnard lou.burnard at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Thu Jan 22 18:08:21 EST 2009


[The following text is added to ND, just before section "Relations 
between names and Places" (not obvious where to put it, but this seems 
to be about right)]


<p>An <gi>event</gi> element is usually used to record information
about a place, or a person; for this reason the element usually
appears as content of a <gi>place</gi> or <gi>person</gi>. However, it
is also possible to describe events independently of either a person
or a place. This may be useful in such applications as chronologies,
lists of significant events such as battles, legislation, etc. </p>

<p>The <gi>listEvent</gi> element is a member of the <ident
type="class">model.listLike</ident> class, and may therefore appear
wherever lists are permitted, in the same way as the
<gi>listPerson</gi>, <gi>listPlace</gi> etc. elements described
elsewhere in this chapter.</p>
<egXML xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/Examples"><listEvent>
<event when="1713" ref="http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/ItemRecord/9_01832">
<label>Treaty of Utrecht</label>
<desc>France ceded to Great Britain its claims to the <orgName>Hudson's Bay
Company</orgName> territories in <placeName>Rupert's Land</placeName>,
<placeName>Newfoundland</placeName>, and
<placeName>Acadia</placeName> and recognized British suzerainty over 
<orgName
type="tribe">the Iroquois</orgName> but retained its other pre-war
North American possessions, including
<placename key="PEI">Île-Saint-Jean</placename> (now <placeName 
key="PEI">Prince Edward
Island</placeName>)...</desc>
</event>
<event when="1774" key="14-GeoIII-c83">
<label>Quebec Act</label>
<desc>This act of the British Parliament guaranteed free practice of
the Catholic faith and restored use of the French Civil Code for
private matters throughout the Province of Quebec, which had been
expanded in territory following the <ref>Treaty of Paris</ref>.</desc>
</event>
<event when="1778" 
ref="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/del1778.asp">
<label>Treaty of Fort Pitt</label>
<desc>Also known as the <name type="event">Treaty with the
Delawares</name>, this was the first written treaty between the newly
formed <orgName>United States</orgName> and any Native American people, 
in this
case, the <orgName type="tribe">Lenape</orgName> or Delawares.</desc>
</event>
</listEvent>
</egXML>

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I've put a different example in the element spec, taken from the example 
Dot proposed in the original ticket:

<listEvent>
<head>Battles of the American Civil War: Kentucky</head>
<event xml:id="event01" when="1861-09-19">
<label>Barbourville</label>
<desc>The Battle of Barbourville was one of the early engagements of
the American Civil War. It occurred September 19, 1861, in Knox
County, Kentucky during the campaign known as the Kentucky Confederate
Offensive. The battle is considered the first Confederate victory in
the commonwealth, and threw a scare into Federal commanders, who
rushed troops to central Kentucky in an effort to repel the invasion,
which was finally thwarted at the <ref target="#event02">Battle of
Camp Wildcat</ref> in October.</desc>
</event>
<event xml:id="event02" when="1861-10-21">
<label>Camp Wild Cat</label>
<desc>
The Battle of Camp Wildcat (also known as Wildcat Mountain and Camp
Wild Cat) was one of the early engagements of the American Civil
War. It occurred October 21, 1861, in northern Laurel County, Kentucky
during the campaign known as the Kentucky Confederate Offensive. The
battle is considered one of the very first Union victories, and marked
the first engagement of troops in the commonwealth of Kentucky.</desc>
</event>
<event xml:id="event03" from="1864-06-11" to="1864-06-12">
<label>Cynthiana</label>
<desc>The Battle of Cynthiana (or Kellar’s Bridge) was an engagement
during the American Civil War that was fought on June 11 and 12, 1864,
in Harrison County, Kentucky, near the town of Cynthiana. A part of
Confederate Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan's 1864 Raid into
Kentucky, the battle resulted in a victory by Union forces over the
raiders and saved the town from capture.</desc>
</event>
</listEvent>

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