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

Laurent Romary laurent.romary at loria.fr
Fri Jan 23 04:52:24 EST 2009


Excellent. Do you all have this feeling that things are being shaped  
nicely? :-)
Laurent

Le 23 janv. 09 à 00:08, Lou Burnard a écrit :

>
> [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>
>
> -----------------
>
> 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>
>
> ----------------
>
> How DID people manage before wikipedia?
>
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